On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:59, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: >>... >> I certainly understand why license issues would be a concern. But I could >> use an education about why this particular case matters. We currently ship >> Neon in a separate tarball from Subversion's core code for the convenience >> of our users, but if that's a problem, we can stop doing so. Subversion >> doesn't require Neon. Or Serf. You can have a perfectly valid, working, >> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all. The >> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >> to. So users and package maintainers are free to assemble Subversion with >> the optional bits they care to provide for their consumers. >> >> Igor, is there a particular concern that you can elaborate on here if only >> for my education? > > If the Apache software is *non-functional* without the LGPL software, > then you are effectively requiring downstream users to link themselves > into the LGPL licensing. > > Since Subversion does not require any LGPL to function, then we should > be just fine. I plan to run this past legal-discuss for verification > (along with our optional GNOME, KDE, and BDB dependencies). I seem to > recall from the legal web pages there is no specific mention of our > case, so wanted to double-check and then possible add our use-case to > those pages. > > Regarding serf and Neon, I think that serf will be just fine to have > as a default. It has been totally functional for many of us (cmpilato > is a serf skeptic :-P)
He is not the only one :) That said, I think the point is why should the default matter? We can either optionally use Neon or we cannot. Even if Neon is the default, if someone builds with only Serf then it becomes the default. As Mike says, we do not provide binaries so we will not be asking to distribute any of these libraries. We will need to find out if it is OK to still supply our dependencies tarball for convenience. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
