Hello; --- On Tue, 9/27/11, Shane Curcuru wrote: .. > > I.e. there are cases where Apache projects may want to > include Category-B (EPL, CPL, MPL, etc.) tools within a > distribution. This is permitted in binary form, but > not source form. >
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but dmake as we have it today clearly lies in this category. > With these tools in binary form in the Apache release, a > user is unlikely to attempt to modify that non-Apache > licensed source code (which they'd have to go find > themselves) without clearly realizing that that portion of > the Apache release is not under our Apache license. > Concerning the external sources that we still carry: would source tarballs of MPL/LGPL stuff be considered binary form? This is mostly what we do today so it would solve most of our issues (gettext still has to go), but that workaround would remove the motivation to further cleanup of the source (glibc could stay!) Pedro.
