-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bump.
Anyone? On Thursday October 29, 2009, Josh Thompson wrote: > Legal advisers, > > We at the Apache VCL project are trying to get our first release out. VCL > is a cloud management framework. It is written in perl and php. > > While there is no third party software bundled with VCL, there are two > types of third party software dependencies we have questions about. > > The first, required perl modules, may not even be considered third party. > For the perl code, we have a script that will install all required > additional perl modules. There's about 14 such modules (with the > possibility that some of them may already be installed). Most of those > modules say they are licensed under the same terms as perl itself. A few > of them explicitly state they are licensed under one of "Artistic License", > GPL, or LGPL. How should we go about listing these licenses? Should they > be listed out in the README file, the NOTICE file, or somewhere else? The > script that installs them displays a message stating that it will install > some items licensed under "Artistic License", GPL, and LGPL and requires > that you type YES to proceed with installing them. > > The second type of third party software depends on how you want to use VCL. > VCL can manage physical machines using xCAT (which must be set up > separately and is outside the scope of installing VCL), or VCL can manage > VMWare based systems, with other hypervisors to be added in later. Also, > there is some experimental work being done to support intelligent storage, > starting with NetApp filers. Here's where things get a little more > complicated. If using xCAT to deploy linux on any hardware, or to deploy > windows on identical hardware, there is no third party software required > (other than the perl modules already discussed). However, if deploying > windows to different types of hardware, you must download Sysprep from > Microsoft, along with any drivers to support the different types of > hardware. > > If using VCL to manage VMWare systems, you need VMWare's perl libraries. > Similarly, if managing a NetApp filer, you need NetApp's perl libraries. > > How do we need to list out/explain these dependencies? > > Thanks for your help, > Josh Thompson - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Advanced Computing | VCL Developer North Carolina State University [email protected] 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK8cKUV/LQcNdtPQMRAmbdAJ93gXJ/pQs3GjE7mJHBWCCL9wBhxQCfZaKE nVGNZDTRGElbKX4cMkBzVBo= =RzFZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
