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From: br...@apache.org [mailto:br...@apache.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 01:47
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Convenience Binary Policy
On 22.10.2014 03:02, Justin Mclean wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Binary dependencies are, by definition, not released by the ASF; because
>> we release source code. Also, software that has dependencies that are
>> only available in binary form is not open-source, in my book.
> You may possibly be forgetting about Category B licensed dependancies. These
> may only be included in binary form in an Apache product. [1] They would be
> still be consider open source by most people :-) The source does exist it's
> just not able to be included in a Apache product due to the weak copy left
> provision the licences include.
I have trouble visualising how any ASF project could have /mandatory/
dependencies on anything from the B-list.
<orcnote>
For an indication of the kinds of non-ASF dependencies that go into
Apache OpenOffice binary distributions, take a look at this list:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/?source=directory>.
(To see the full names, mouse over the names in the Name column.)
There is a non-neglible potential for more Category B dependencies
in the future, now that LibreOffice releases are under the MPL 2.0.
</orcnote>
-- Brane
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