Kelven, Chiradeep, What license governs the redistribution, what do we include in our notice file and is that license compatible with the ASF license policy?
Hugo Sent from my iPhone > On 22 jan. 2014, at 00:44, Kelven Yang <kelven.y...@citrix.com> wrote: > > Q. Can I redistribute the VI SDK libraries and sample code? > A. You can redistribute only those parts of the SDK package that have been > designated as ³distributable code². > In VI SDK 2.5, the following components can be redistributed: vim.jar, > vim25.jar. To note developers typically generate web service stubs from > the WSDL file that is included in the VI SDK using a SOAP toolkit. > >>> The stubs source and the compiled stubs can also be distributed. > > > Could this solve our license problem, we discussed before that generating > our own java stub can give us flexibility to support co-existence of > different versions of VMware web service API inside CloudStack. > > If we see this as urgency, we need to have someone work on to put WSDL > generation process to maven build > > For latest names of VI SDK libraries that can be redistributed visit > http://vmware.com/go/sdk-redistribution-info > > > > On 1/21/14, 3:18 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> > wrote: > >> Apparently we can >> https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7983 >> http://markmail.org/thread/ttamcfb4d6azzbw7 >> >> >>> On 1/21/14 2:46 PM, "Hugo Trippaers" <trip...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Chiradeep, >>> >>> Even on the generated sources nobody seems willing to state that it is ok >>> to include them at the moment. Otherwise I would have put them in >>> already. >>> >>> Hugo >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 21 jan. 2014, at 19:32, Chiradeep Vittal >>>> <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Suboptimal for? >>>> Wouldn't the ACS user want the best / supported client libraries? >>>> Alternatively, can't we just compile the WSDL and check in the >>>> generated >>>> sources? Not check-in the WSDL, but the client sources. >>>> >>>>> On 1/21/14 7:18 AM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Chip Childers >>>>> <chipchild...@apache.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> I bet we never got an answer. Frankly, I'd like to see us use >>>>>> something where the licensing is clear. That, or we don't include >>>>>> the >>>>>> WSDL in our repo / distro. >>>>> >>>>> Additionally, we are an open source project that is in the business of >>>>> producing open source software. Depending on non-free and >>>>> non-opensource libraries is suboptimal, but its worse when there is a >>>>> open source alternative. >>>>> >>>>> --David >
