Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/770#issuecomment-43429692
@srowen Hadoop does distribute binary artifacts that work without a
dependency download, so it might be good to let them know about this. Thanks
for taking a look at the official policy though.
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