Agreed. I don't think this blocks 4.0. The thread is on general@incubator, and I just nudged it along some.
It would be good to get final word on whether we have the legal right to distribute these files. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > Noah, > > I'm not sure about legal rights to distribute (I'm not from Citrix, > and can't vouch for the original terms under which Citrix / Cloud.com > acquired the jars). We'll have to get an answer from someone from > that original team. > > That being said, I don't think there is anything for the CloudStack > community to do until the legal-discuss@a.o thread comes to a > consensus. Also, I don't think that we are in a position where this > has anything to do with a potential release. It *may* impact an > eventual graduation, depending on the legal thread. Either way, to > purge history will require folks from infra@ to get it done (if not > root@). > > -chip > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > Just one follow up. Someone on the Incubator thread mentioned that we > > should be fine as long as it is legal for us to distribute them. > > (Irrespective of their compatibility with the Apache license.) Do you > know > > whether this is the case? > > > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:52 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sep 30, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > >> > >> > Poor choice of words. :) I've asked a question on > general@incuabtorabout > >> > this now. I presume the jars have since been removed from HEAD. Is > that > >> > right? And what license were they distributed under? > >> > > >> > > >> > >> They have all (to my knowledge) been removed. > >> Some were under VMwares SDK license, which does permit some > redistribution > >> in certain cases, others were under the NetApp SDK license for which I > am > >> unaware of the terms but it was posted to the list some time back. > >> > >> Those are the only two that jump to mind that weren't under some sort of > >> an open source license, but my memory might be fallible. > >> > >> --David > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:48 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > >> > > >> >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> > >> wrote: > >> >>> My concern is that we're hosting non-OS software on ASF > infrastructure > >> >> that > >> >>> people are actually downloading for convenience! I am not sure what > the > >> >>> policy is around non-OS software that has been mistakenly committed. > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> It wasn't mistakenly committed. > >> >> It was originally in the codebase when we imported it to the ASF. > >> >> > >> >> --David > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > NS > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > NS > -- NS
