Github user srowen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14981
Good question. The Kinesis (non-assembly) artifact does not itself bundle
any Amazon-licensed code. However it of course strongly depends on it.
But, the Kinesis artifact itself is optional with respect to Spark itself.
So is it OK for an Apache project to publish an optional component, which
depends non-optionally on a component with prohibited license?
The Flink part of LEGAL-198 concerned repackaging an alternate build of the
Amazon Kinesis lib, which isn't quite the situation here.
I'm not against just not publishing any of this if it's a gray area. Is
anyone willing to take it up with legal@ for a definitive answer? if not then
yes in the end I agree with the change here.
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