For Q1 the legal guidance as I understand it is that we can provide users with instructions for how to get optional (L)GPL dependencies, but we can't distribute them ourselves. Putting the mysql-connector in an Docker image does feel like distribution…
Q2 is an interesting question. I wonder if Apache has a policy on official or semiofficial Docker containers that touches on the possibly thorny licensing questions. It seems that they do exist for other projects, though: https://hub.docker.com/u/apache. The Zeppelin one, for example, is based on ubuntu so it must have plenty of GPL stuff in it: https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/zeppelin/dockerfile. And it is presented on the Zeppelin page as an official thing: https://zeppelin.apache.org/docs/0.7.0/install/docker.html. I dunno, it feels weird to me, and I am searching for evidence of these issues having been explicitly discussed by other projects but have not found it yet. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 3:13 PM Don Bowman <d...@agilicus.com> wrote: > Re: PR https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/6896 > > I am trying to make a container that works for folks so that we can get the > Kubernetes helm chart off the ground. > > A question has arisen in the PR around the 'mysql-connector-java' which is > GPL. > > Q1. A script checked into the druid container build repo that is Apache > license, does anyone have a concern if it has a line 'wget ... > mysql-connector.java' [link > < > https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/6896#pullrequestreview-195673343 > > > to question] > Q2. Given that the container ultimately has GPL things in it (e.g. bash) is > there a problem releasing it? [link > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/6896#discussion_r250316937 > > > to Q] > > I'll work on the other comments in the PR. > > --don >
