I don't think Spark would ever distributed except through the ASF and mainstream channels like Maven Central, but you can redistribute the bits as-is as you like. This would be in line with the terms of the Apache license.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:17 AM Marco Vermeulen <vermeulen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > My name is Marco and I am the project lead of SDKMAN. For those of you who > are not familiar with the project, it is a FLOSS SDK management tool which > allows you to install and switch seamlessly between multiple versions of > the same SDK when using UNIX shells. You can read more about it on our > website[1]. > > > > I’ve started using Spark myself on a project and was thinking that it > would be a very good candidate too be hosted on SDKMAN. This becomes > especially apparent when needing to switch between versions of Spark while > developing. > > > > The reason I’m writing here is because our tool has an API that allows SDK > providers to push their own releases to our service. We don’t host the > actual binaries, but it merely enables our tool to point to your new > release archives and allow for super easy installation. This can be done by > either a few simple REST calls as part of your release process or else > automated by using our Maven release plugin. > > > > Would the Spark dev community be open for something like this? A recent > poll on Twitter shows a good appetite for Spark on SDKMAN by our users[2]. > Also, we already have many teams pushing to us in this manner including > Groovy, Kotlin, Ceylon, OpenJDK, Gradle, SBT to name a few. Having Spark > included would be really great. > > > > Apologies in advance if this is not the correct forum for release related > posts. > > Many thanks, > > Marco. > > > > [1] http://sdkman.io > > [2] https://twitter.com/sdkman_/status/907698363877003264 >
