Bluesky Team
I had the great opportunity and honor to meet many of you face to face
at Xi'an Jiao Tong University in June. At that time, we discussed the
GPL/LGPL issue and Ting and and Hai Peng understood that the ASF cannot
distribute GPL/LGPL code. We also discussed the difference between the
LGPL and GPL.. that it was permissible for code hosted at the ASF to
dynamically link into LGPL code but that it was not acceptable to static
link into LGPL or link, either dynamically or statically, to GPL code.
The resolution, as I recall, was that it was possible to completely
isolate the GPL/LGPL dependencies in the bluesky code from the rest of
the code base. Is that not the case? What has changed?
It appears that the code recently checked into the bluesky repository
contains GPL/LGPL code. That is unacceptable. I will be requesting
the infrastructure team to shut down further commits to the repository
until the incubator PMC is satisfied that the team understands the
sensitivity of the license issue.
Bill
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