I agree with Ross. In my understanding the whole issue is a non-issue anyway. See [1]. You are very well allowed to give users instrucions on how to obtain and install OPTIONAL components to your main product that are dependent on software with incompatible licenses. You are just not allowed to include them in your official source distribution.
So an additional binary package including e.g. your Hibernate integration and a separate location in SVN/GIT where users can get the sources are OK IMO as long as both are not part of your official source distribution. Check with legal please. Uli [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional On Thu, September 27, 2012 01:04, Ross Gardler wrote: > As I see it the end result of the proposed activity is an Apache community > producing GPL code. Extras is not intended to be a way to route around ASF > policies relating to licence choice. It is intended to be a place for > apache related projects. > > Others may see it differently. > > Sent from my tablet > On Sep 26, 2012 10:07 PM, "Christian Müller" <christian.muel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> A few day ago, I started a thread [1], mainly because we wanted to >> forward >> our Camel Extra [2] commit and issue notifications to our regular Camel >> mailing list. We had some issues with this and asked INFRA for help. Now >> we >> realized, there are different understandings what we can do (allowed to >> do) >> and what not. I didn't found an answer at [3] or [4]. I want >> clarification >> about the following question: >> >> - Is it inline with the Apache policy to forward commit notifications >> from >> Apache Extra projects to the regular Apache project mailing list (INFRA >> managed)? >> >> - Is it inline with the Apache policy to forward issue notifications >> from >> Apache Extra issue tracker (Google code) to the regular Apache project >> mailing list (INFRA managed)? >> >> - Is it inline with the Apache policy to direct users from Apache Extra >> to >> raise issues at the regular Apache issue tracker (JIRA)? >> >> - Is it inline with the Apache policy to host content on Apache >> Confluence >> which covers Apache Extra artifacts (e.g. >> http://camel.apache.org/hibernate.html)? >> >> [1] >> >> http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Re-Apache-Extras-notifications-was-Disable-GitHub-commenting-httpd-td5719778.html >> [2] http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/camel-extra/ >> [3] >> >> https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches >> [4] http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/guidelines.html >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Christian >> >> -- >> >
