On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:38 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >... > Gosh i'm pretty sure we _don't_ allow things like (L)GPL dependencies > in Incubator releases, we allow them in the source in SVN but i don't > recall any releases like that.
As I replied to Marvin, Apache Roller had a hard dependency on Hibernate for some of its incubator releases. Allowing that was okay'd by the IPMC, VP Legal, and the Board :-) My view is that these are not true ASF projects, so *some* wiggle is allowable, especially with a plan in hand. (now, I still would not advocate for any release that seriously broke the rules; at a minimum, get LICENSE/NOTICE and source file headers in there; work on clarifying your dependencies and their licenses; etc) > Anyway thats beside the point, ok so lets have this be a precedent > that sets Incubator policy - we now have some wiggle room while > incubating to do a release that violates ASF release policy as long as > it will be fixed soon in another release and definitely before > graduating. A policy like that would help a lot with avoiding the > numerous respins some poddling releases are made to do during voting > on general@. Exactly. We've seen a lot of back/forth which doesn't really help the podling very much. It's certainly a subjective judgement call. I don't know where to draw the line, nor whether we must draw it. One of those "know it when you see it" things. And we have the judgement of a large body of people here on this list. Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
