On 08/20/2012 11:32 PM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote:
On 8/14/12 10:33 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com>
wrote:
On 8/14/12 6:20 AM, "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote:
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.
IANAL, but config files that do not have license text already should not
have any issue?
Especially since there is no other way to configure the software?
About half the config files are original work (not derived), the rest can
be supplied as patch files to the originals.
Not sure that supplying patches is any different from distributing
modified config files though.
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.
Wido has some good suggestions here:
http://goo.gl/EuUoQ
1. Host convenience binaries on say Sourceforge
2. Supply the build script so that folks can build it themselves.
Following up from the IRC discussion:
1. Regarding license of configuration files, I have raised an issue with
Legal: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-146
2. Regarding the iptables deb for fixing dhcp behavior for Ubuntu VMs, I
have a proposal:
A. Since the system vm cannot be distributed, we will have to host it
as a convenience binary somewhere. This hosted version can certainly have
the DHCP fix
B. For those who want to build the system vm from scratch, they will
not get the DHCP/iptables fix but are welcome to install the fix as a
post-build procedure.
If they build the System VM from Ubuntu 12.04 they should have the DHCP
fix already?
I can't find the thread where this was discussed in.
I still think we should make it easier for users to create a System VM.
Like I already said ( http://goo.gl/EuUoQ ), we should generate a couple
of DEB (or RPM) packages which you can install and turn your clean
install into a System VM. Something I want to take a look at post-4.0
Wido
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Chiradeep
