Daniel,

Could you explain those exceptions? I don't think I've ever heard of GPL
being OK'd to use in an AL release.

John

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:41 AM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote:

> +0.999 - seem okay but some files are missing license headers.
>
> The seemingly GPL (some aren't GPL at all) files Justin linked to have
> exceptions for use which allows it.
>
> I ran it through my usual stuff,
> http://compliance.rocks/result.html?358649c0
> - and every single GPL-licensed file has an exception which allows it to
> be bundled with ALv2 projects.
>
> With regards,
> Daniel.
>
> On 01/10/2016 01:14 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry it’s -1 binding due to the inclusion of GPL licenced files [1] and
> other license issues [2] and unable to compile from source. Happy to
> reconsider if explained.
> >
> > I checked:
> > - release contains incubating
> > - signatures and hashes good
> > - DISCLAIMER exists
> > - LICENSE has some minor issues
> > - NOTICE contains too much information
> > - No binaries in source
> > - All source files have apache header
> > - Unable to compile from source
> >
> > GPL licensed files includes:
> > ./config/ltmain.sh
> > ./config/ltversion.m4
> > ./config/lt~obsolete.m4
> > ./config/config.guess
> > ./config/config.sub
> > ./config/install-sh (?)
> > ./Makefile.in (?) this also has a ASF header which seems odd
> >
> > While this seems to be a build tool [7] I’m not 100% sure if all files
> here are OK.
> >
> > For LICENSE:
> > - path to tinydir.h is incorrect
> > - missing licence for ./include/singa/utils/cuda_utils.h
> > - include/utils/common.h path is incorrect and the file most likely has
> an incorrect ASF header
> > - missing license for (BSD licensed) ./tool/cpplint.py. Possibly
> tool/cppling.py should be tool/cpplint.py?
> > - missing licence for (BSD license?) ./examples/rnnlm/create_data.cc
> > - copyright for tinydir is incorrect should be "Cong Xu, Baudouin
> Feildel”
> > - files in include/mshadow/* are missing Apache header so it’s unclear
> if they are Apache licensed or where they are from. I think this is sort of
> OK [3]
> > - copyright "Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, The Regents of the University of
> California (Regents)” may be incorrect, you may want to double check years
> >
> > May be other issues as at this point i gave up.
> >
> > Also LICENSE file is also missing some whitespace on the first line
> which you may want to fix.
> >
> > For NOTICE:
> > - No need to include BSD licence information [4]
> > - Too much info in NOTICE [5]
> > - No need to list non bundled software [6]
> >
> > Would also be nice to have compile instructions. On OS X configure fails
> for me with:
> > configure: error: unable to find cblas_sgemm() function
> >
> > Assuming you run configure &&  make to compile and OS X is supported but
> it’s not 100% clear.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
> >
> > 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
> > 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
> > 3. https://github.com/dmlc/mshadow
> > 4. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
> > 5. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice
> > 6. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#guiding-principle
> > 7. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#build-tools
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