Hi Luciano, On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Luciano Resende wrote:
>> >> Who asked to release the code? I just want an SVN to throw the code up at. >> If you look at oodt-pushpull-plugins [1], the LICENSE.txt file is ALv2. The >> code >> we wrote (in Java) is ALv2. The code includes a runtime Maven2 dependency >> on libraries that provide FTP protocol implementations (Ftp4Che [2] and >> JvFtp [3]) >> that are LGPL licensed. >> > > If you are saying this is compatible with ALv2 ? Then why use Apache > Extras instead of just the oodt SVN official repo in Apache ? Because of the expectation in Apache released software (cited by Greg and other Directors on several occasions) that downstream users won't have LGPL software magically pulled in to the Apache released product. Hosting the plugin code at Extras (which includes LGPL Maven2 compilation dependencies) allows a home for code that would otherwise live inside of a private SVN repo and thus be immensely more difficult to share. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
