I'm trying to kick off conversation with this thread... I know that people have been looking at the System VM licensing and distribution issues from various angles, but I'm not sure we came to a consensus on how to deal with the system VMs overall.
AFAIK, we have two outstanding issues: 1 - We have a bunch of configuration / code in the patches folder of our source tree that *may* have licensing issues. 2 - We need to initiate a request to ASF Legal for permission to distribute a system VM template (including the GPL OS and software) from ASF infrastructure, OR figure out how the community can distribute valid system VMs outside of ASF. We also have floated the idea of enabling anyone to create a valid system VM image, by defining the interface and operational requirements (perhaps also by providing puppet configuration manifests). I really like this idea, and some of the work required to make that a possibility might be required to deal with ASF restrictions, so options like that should be on the table as well. Thoughts? Comments? (even solutions would be good... ;-) ) -chip
