Yeah... it means that somebody downloading Thrift, expecting just Apache-licensed code is gonna get surprised to also have to include LGPL'd code. That's why we don't allow... no surprises for the user.
What features of Glib are needed by this implementation? (I can't tell since it isn't in svn...) Cheers, -g On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 20:40, Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since Glib is LGPL I think there is an issue including this dependency on > thrift. > > Can any PMC folks comment if this contribution is going to be possible to > include? > > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html > > -Jake > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Reiss <dre...@facebook.com> wrote: > >> >>> - should I attach this stuff to THRIFT-582 as a massive patch? not >> >>> sure how well that would work, as there will still be a lot of future >> >>> updates. I'm happy to just continue to work on github, or use >> something >> >>> else if there are suggestions. >> >> Yes, you should attach a massive patch, since that is the easiest way >> for >> >> us to document the history of the code. Keeping an active branch on >> github >> >> is also good to allow more detailed analysis of the development process. >> > >> > Should we do that now, or later, once the server implementation is >> > complete and the tests have full code coverage? >> Either. >> >
