You could also read the documentation[1] here about what license is allowed in ASF project.
[1] https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a Best Regards, YorkShen 申远 申远 <shenyua...@gmail.com> 于2019年10月22日周二 下午2:49写道： > 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 >> > >> > >> >
