On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:46am, James James wrote:
Hi,
I examined all the jar files needed for building mahout-0.2 jar.
There is one jar file called kfs-0.3.jar which is GPL-licensed.
Really? From what I could find, it's under Apache 2.0:
http://blog.kosmix.com/kosmix-technology/kosmos-filesystem-release/
Though it seems odd that the jar is in the org.apache.mahout.kosmofs
groupId, vs. org.kosmix (with artifactId of kosmosfs)
-- Ken
I am not an expert on open source licenses, but my understanding is
that GPL is viral. Mahout itself is licensed under Apache License,
but does its dependence on this GPL-licensed jar file contaminate
itself? This issue seems to also be relevant for Hadoop since Hadopp
seems to rely on this kfs-0.3.jar too.
Is there any way to build mahout-0.2 without relying on kfs-0.3.jar?
Thanks so very much.
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