And to answer the question why this only came up now. I'm mentoring the Aria Tosca project, and looking at their release pointed out some of these issues, so only then I came to find out the differences about this. Thanks to Ran, I understand better now.
John On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM Bolke de Bruin <bdbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks alot. That does indeed help, and might be a structure we will start > using ourselves. > > Cheers > Bolke > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 6 Jul 2017, at 17:34, Ran Ziv <r...@gigaspaces.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm not 100% sure this is relevant, but regarding sdist vs source > tarball, > > we just had a similar issue in the apache-ariatosca project when the > > release candidate package I had brought up to a vote contained a Pythonic > > sdist rather than a source code tarball. > > We ended up creating three different packages: > > a tarball ("source") - containing a snapshot of the source code > (including > > e.g. doc-generating files, but without the generated doc pages) > > an sdist - containing examples, generated documentation, and source code > > with a setup.py etc. > > and a bdist - basically the package's wheel (but updated to contain the > > LICENSE, NOTICE and DISCLAIMER files) i.e. compiled code. > > > > The tarball goes as the canonical Apache release, and the sdist and bdist > > packages go on PyPI. > > > > You can see the structure here if you're interested: > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/ariatosca/0.1.0-incubating/ > > > > > > Sorry if this wasn't relevant for your scenario. > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Bolke de Bruin <bdbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Protovis became d3, which is BSD licensed. D3’s examples contain the > same > >> code. The author (Mike Bostock) is the same in both cases. I have just > send > >> him an email, I hope he responds. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Bolke > >> > >> > >>> On 6 Jul 2017, at 15:08, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> HI, > >>> > >>>> [20] “nv.d3.js” originates from http://nvd3.org <http://nvd3.org/> > and > >> its license states it is Apache License 2, > https://github.com/novus/nvd3/ > >> blob/master/LICENSE.md <https://github.com/novus/ > >> nvd3/blob/master/LICENSE.md> . And as far as I understand it it should > >> not need to be licensed to the ASF to be using the APL2? > >>> > >>> Which is fine but if you look a litter closer you see in the file this > >> comment: > >>> > >>> // Chart design based on the recommendations of Stephen Few. > >> Implementation > >>> // based on the work of Clint Ivy, Jamie Love, and Jason Davies. > >>> // http://projects.instantcognition.com/protovis/bulletchart/ > >>> > >>> Going to that URL it’s unclear how that code is licensed. > >>> > >>> Doing a google search show similar code that is GPL licensed. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Justin > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >