A big thanks to all that have left feedback! After much deliberation, we
have decided to withdraw this proposal for the time being. The questions
around licenses are delicate, and we are currently not ready to navigate
them.
Cheers,
Kevin
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:52 PM 申远 wrote:
> You could also read the documentation[1] here about what license is allowed
> in ASF project.
>
> [1] https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a
>
> Best Regards,
> YorkShen
>
> 申远
>
>
> 申远 于2019年10月22日周二 下午2:49写道：
>
> > Base on my experience (wearing my Apache Weex's hat), GPL/LGPL
> dependency
> > is not compatible with ASF's policy, and you may want to fix the License
> > problem at the beginning, even before into Incubator. Otherwise, GPL/LGPL
> > dependency will give you a lot of pain than you'd ever expect.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > YorkShen
> >
> > 申远
> >
> >
> > Javier Luraschi 于2019年10月22日周二 上午2:55写道：
> >
> >> Regarding licenses, dplyr is under MIT, see:
> >> https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/LICENSE.md. However,
> other
> >> packages are under GPL2.
> >>
> >> Here are all the packages that sparklyr currently depends on and their
> >> associated license (This was retrieved from
> >> https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=, since R package repo
> >> (CRAN) requires their license to be clearly defined).
> >>
> >> assertthat: GPL-3
> >> base64enc: GPL-2 | GPL-3
> >> config: GPL-3
> >> DBI: LGPL-2 | LGPL-2.1 | LGPL-3
> >> dplyr: MIT
> >> dbplyr: MIT
> >> digest: GPL-2 | GPL-3
> >> forge: Apache
> >> generics: GPL-2
> >> httr: MIT
> >> jsonlite: MIT
> >> openssl: MIT
> >> purrr: GPL-3
> >> r2d3: BSD-3
> >> rappdirs: MIT
> >> rlang: GPL-3
> >> rprojroot: GPL-3
> >> rstudioapi: MIT
> >> tibble: MIT
> >> tidyr: MIT
> >> withr: GPL-2 | GPL-3
> >> xml2: GPL-2 | GPL-3
> >> ellipsis: GPL-3
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 1:12 AM Justin Mclean >
> >> 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
> >> > -
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> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
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