I don't see a reason to remove the non-assembly artifact, why would you? You're not distributing copies of Amazon licensed code, and the Amazon license goes out of its way not to over-reach regarding derivative works.
This seems pretty clearly to fall in the spirit of http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional I certainly think the majority of Spark users will still want to use Spark without adding Kinesis On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > It's worth calling attention to: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17418 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17422 > > It looks like we need to at least not publish the kinesis *assembly* > Maven artifact because it contains Amazon Software Licensed-code > directly. > > However there's a reasonably strong reason to believe that we'd have > to remove the non-assembly Kinesis artifact too, as well as the > Ganglia one. This doesn't mean it goes away from the project, just > means it would no longer be published as a Maven artifact. (These have > never been bundled in the main Spark artifacts.) > > I wanted to give a heads up to see if anyone a) believes this > conclusion is wrong or b) wants to take it up with legal@? I'm > inclined to believe we have to remove them given the interpretation > Luciano has put forth. > > Sean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
