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Sheng Zha commented on INCUBATOR-253:
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Summary (WIP)
The PPMC continues to make progress in resolving license and branding issues.
During the a recent release vote on 1.7.0, with the help from Justin, a few
more source distribution and branding issues were found. Here is the status on
the issues, tracked in INCUBATOR-253. As of now, the PPMC resolved 15 issues,
with 9 still left.
Most of the outstanding issues hinge on one key outstanding question, which is
whether the components in MXNet that are produced by CUDA NVCC constitutes
Category X code. PPMC member employed by Nvidia helped connect Nvidia's
representatives including Michael O'Connor, Director of Deep Learning, who have
been supportive in the efforts of clarification. Progress is tracked in
LEGAL-516. Also note that there was confusion around MXNet's status around
integration with Intel products. In MXNet, there has never been public
distribution of MXNet where MKL was included. There was an initial inquiry
around whether MKL builds can be enabled but was rejected, so this never came
into practice. Also, to my knowledge Intel has not produced custom MXNet builds
with closed-source components.
MXNet 1.7.0 release vote was put on hold for addressing the branding issues in
third-party releases and for an IP clearance process.
So far, PPMC members from Intel (Tao), Nvidia (Dick), and Amazon (Leonard,
Henri, Qing, Sheng) have acted to help resolve the issues.
Status on open issues from last update:
1. Source and convenance binary releases containing Category X licensed code.
(pending)
* Source code releases by the PPMC do not contain Category X code, no issue.
Takedown of binary releases by the PPMC on repository.apache.org is on hold,
see item 5.
PyPI releases are made by third-party. See item 8.
5. Maven releases containing Category X licensed code. (pending)
* Takedown of binary releases on repository.apache.org initiated [1]. The
scope depends on the resolution of LEGAL-516 [2].
6. PyPI releases containing Category X licensed code. (pending)
* There are no official PyPI releases. Whether the third-party releases are
compliant with branding guidelines depend on the resolution of LEGAL-516.
7. Docker releases containing Category X licensed code. (pending)
* There are no official Docker releases. Whether the third-party releases are
compliant with branding guidelines depend on the resolution of LEGAL-516.
9. Trademark and branding issues with PyPI and Docker releases. (pending)
* There are no official PyPI or Docker releases. In addition, as they all
contain binary from unmodified MXNet code, whether they are compliant in
branding now solely depends on whether they contain Category X licensed code.
Refer to item 6, 7.
10. Trademark and brand issues with naming of releases. (pending)
* There are no binary releases by the PPMC besides the repository.apache.org
releases in item 5.
12. Releases and other nightly builds on https://repo.mxnet.io /
https://dist.mxnet.io containing Category X licensed code (resolved)
* Neither of the two site contains releases. The binaries are only intended
for testing pipelines and are made available only to MXNet developers. As part
of the effort to resolve branding concern, public references to these sites are
deleted [4].
14. to 23. Branding and release of 3rd parties containing unreleased code.
(pending)
Known pages with issues:
*
https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/frameworks/mxnet-release-notes/rel_20-03.html
(item 14, pending)
PPMC reached out to Nvidia. Pending action from Nvidia on branding compliance
and replying on whether unreleased code was included.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/apache-mxnet.mirror/ (item 15, resolved)
* PPMC reached out to SourceForge. SourceForge added (incubating) in name. As
1.7.0 release has completed, we removed release candidate tag from GitHub and
the the mirror automatically deleted the it [3]. As such, the original issue is
resolved. The PPMC will follow up with SourceForge on the functionality of
filtering out non-release tags.
AWS Marketplace related links
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07YW8HVLD?qid=1595741035764&sr=0-4&ref_=srh_res_product_title
(item 22, pending)
* PPMC reached out to Bitnami directly regarding this listing [5]. Pending
reply.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?x=0&y=0&searchTerms=%22MXNet
(item 23, pending)
* PPMC reached out to AWS through internal channel to fix branding issue. Will
update in the next few days.
Reference links
[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20442
[2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-516
[3]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apache-mxnet.mirror/
[4]:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-515?focused
