Base on my experience (wearing my Apache Weex's hat), GPL/LGPL dependency is not compatible with ASF's policy, and you may want to fix the License problem at the beginning, even before into Incubator. Otherwise, GPL/LGPL dependency will give you a lot of pain than you'd ever expect.
Best Regards, YorkShen 申远 Javier Luraschi <jav...@rstudio.com> 于2019年10月22日周二 上午2:55写道： > Regarding licenses, dplyr is under MIT, see: > https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/LICENSE.md. However, other > packages are under GPL2. > > Here are all the packages that sparklyr currently depends on and their > associated license (This was retrieved from > https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=<package-name>, since R package repo > (CRAN) requires their license to be clearly defined). > > assertthat: GPL-3 > base64enc: GPL-2 | GPL-3 > config: GPL-3 > DBI: LGPL-2 | LGPL-2.1 | LGPL-3 > dplyr: MIT > dbplyr: MIT > digest: GPL-2 | GPL-3 > forge: Apache > generics: GPL-2 > httr: MIT > jsonlite: MIT > openssl: MIT > purrr: GPL-3 > r2d3: BSD-3 > rappdirs: MIT > rlang: GPL-3 > rprojroot: GPL-3 > rstudioapi: MIT > tibble: MIT > tidyr: MIT > withr: GPL-2 | GPL-3 > xml2: GPL-2 | GPL-3 > ellipsis: GPL-3 > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 1:12 AM 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 > > > > >
