This looks interesting to me. I would be willing to contribute, if you would like to add me to the initial list of committers.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:50 AM Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > A lot of core R libraries seem to be under GPL. If we build more R > projects at Apache, it seems like we may need more Apache-licensed (or > compatible) libraries in R. > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 03:12, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I also concerned that the initial committer list only contains 3 > committers. Why have you not included others in the community that have > made contributions? > > > > I don’t know if this is an issue or not but bring it up just in case you > not aware. I can see that some of the tidyverse packages are under GPL2, > the GPL license is not compatible with the ALv2. I’m not 100% sure what > license dplyr is under. I can see that sparkly depends on several (10+) GPL > licensed pieces of software. Do you see this causing any issue as GPL code > can’t be included in an Apache source release and can’t be a non-optional > dependancy of an ASF project. Have you discussed this with your champion or > proposed mentors and have they flagged this as a possible issue? > > > > I can see that one of the proposed mentors is not an IPMC member (which > is required) and another seems not very active in signing off reports or > voting on releases. Did you think the existing mentors will provide your > project with enough support? > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > 1. https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/LICENSE > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
