On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu> wrote: > Niall Pemberton wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> fyi, Subversion has been migrated into the ASF repository. About 30+ >>> committers have access and are beginning work within the ASF repo. >>> Below, you can see the big change to switch the licensing over to the >>> ASF (we were already on ALv2, so this is merely a name change). Also, >>> note the mailing lists are active. I declared "flag day" as 00:01 UTC >>> Wednesday Nov 18 to switch to the subversion.apache.org lists (lazy >>> consensus seems to approve). Please sign up as you will (all lists are >>> open-subscription, but for private). >>> >>> Buildbot migration is now in-progress. I also expect some nightly >>> builds to begin soon. At that point, we'll have tarballs if anybody >>> would like to perform an audit. Hyrum has already fed some patches >>> back to RAT to ease running RAT on release tarballs. >>> >> >> I ran a RAT report (0.6 version) on subversion trunk but theres alot >> of *noise* from it. I have opened a bug ticket for license header >> review here: >> >> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3529 >> >> It would make review easier if the files without headers had them >> added. If thats considered a good idea, I'll try and help submitting >> patches. >> > > I see the following in that ticket: > > GPL - Copyright Free Software Foundation, Inc. > build/config.guess > build/config.sub > > ????? - Copyright X Consortium > build/install-sh > > I don't rightly know what to do about config.guess and config.sub; > they're essential parts of the autoconf system, so we (currently) can't > really build without them -- but their GPL does not affect the compiled > code, so that should be OK. Note that at least APR has these two files, > under the same license, in the same place in their tree.
Sorry I'm no expert on licensing. Might be worth asking the APR guys or following up on the legal-discuss mailing list. If it is OK to distribute then it might be that something just needs adding to the LICENSE and/or NOTICE files - but I'm no expert on that. I submitted a patch to add the ant build file that runs RAT, since it seems like a good idea to build up and document the list of exclusions for these kind of files that raise flags but or actually OK. I also added the latest RAT report run against trunk to the ticket (can't currently get hold of the nightly distros) http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3529 Niall > For install-sh, we could probably replace it with APR's install.sh. The > latter is also based on the X consortium's original, but modified and > mogrified, and it now says it's subject to the Apache license. > > I'm testing the Subversion build now to see if it works with APR's > install.sh, and will switch over if everything appears to be OK. > > -- Brane > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
