On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:16 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Chip and others who knows this, >> >> If we generate our own client stubs from the vmware wsdl, does that mean >> vmware can be in oss? When you looked at the licensing for vmware, did that >> come across as an alternative? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --Alex > > > Such things have been discussed as OK on legal-discuss in the past for > other projects. We talked about it during 4.0 and decided not to try > at that point to minimize change, but I'd personally love to see that > happen so that VMware was part of the OSS build. > > We'd prolly want to open a ticket on legal-discuss to ensure that the > legal powers that be are ok with it. > > --David >
+1 to what David said. Similar questions have been raised on legal-discuss@a.o, but the closest thing I was able to find was: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-137 In that discussion, it was actually a question of including the WSDL and XSDs in the distribution. I think that we would ask the question differently... Can we include *generated* java classes that were derived from a WSDL file in our source distribution (citing the specifics)? Alternatively, I've advocated for using vi-java previously. vi-java provides *both* a bit more understandable set of APIs to control Virtual Center, as well as exposing a set of classes that would probably match anything we would generate ourselves. IIRC, you can use either / both. -chip
