A lot of core R libraries seem to be under GPL. If we build more R projects at Apache, it seems like we may need more Apache-licensed (or compatible) libraries in R.
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 03:12, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I also concerned that the initial committer list only contains 3 committers. > Why have you not included others in the community that have made > contributions? > > I don’t know if this is an issue or not but bring it up just in case you not > aware. I can see that some of the tidyverse packages are under GPL2, the GPL > license is not compatible with the ALv2. I’m not 100% sure what license dplyr > is under. I can see that sparkly depends on several (10+) GPL licensed pieces > of software. Do you see this causing any issue as GPL code can’t be included > in an Apache source release and can’t be a non-optional dependancy of an ASF > project. Have you discussed this with your champion or proposed mentors and > have they flagged this as a possible issue? > > I can see that one of the proposed mentors is not an IPMC member (which is > required) and another seems not very active in signing off reports or voting > on releases. Did you think the existing mentors will provide your project > with enough support? > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/LICENSE > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
