Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Christian Müller
Hadrian, thanks for the excellent summary. Best, Christian On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: > I though Ross was very clear in his explanation, but apparently not... > **Unfortunately this thread (happens too often > at the ASF) is digressing into hypothetical, vague and p

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
I though Ross was very clear in his explanation, but apparently not... Unfortunately this thread (happens too often at the ASF) is digressing into hypothetical, vague and philosophical discussions. Quoting Ross: "this *is* completely different". As an aside, I personally don't consider subscr

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 28 September 2012 02:41, Rob Weir wrote: > > ... > >> Specific example. OpenOffice podling has signed up for a security >> mailing list where we receive security-related bug reports from >> LibreOffice, an open source project that is LGPL

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Ross Gardler
On 28 September 2012 02:41, Rob Weir wrote: ... > Specific example. OpenOffice podling has signed up for a security > mailing list where we receive security-related bug reports from > LibreOffice, an open source project that is LGPL/MPL, not ALv2. We do > this by subscribing our security list

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Ross Gardler
I refer back to my original response. apache-extras is not intended to be a way to route around legal and community policies here at the ASF. I believe that what you propose does just that regardless of the license choice and distribution mechanism. You propose using ASF infrastructure for everyth

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > I think that is just engineering prudence. Take the example of a > component that you might have a dependency. I see no problem with a > PMC wanting to be informed about all changes to that component as well > as all bugs found in that compon

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Perhaps I can help here. > > The root of all this, as I understand it, is an optional dependency. > There is, of course, code that depends on the optional dependency. > However, no one has mentioned any *source* code that is under an > inc

RE: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
...@opendirective.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 13:56 To: Dennis Hamilton; dev@community.apache.org Subject: RE: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific Sent from my tablet On Sep 27, 2012 9:51 PM, "Dennis E. Hamilton" wrote: [ ... ] >

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Christian Müller
I follow the exchanges with great interest. To make a few things more clear: - All Camel extra components are optional and we do not deliver/release/deploy it with our normal Apache Camel releases (and we do not plan to do this). - As package name, we use org.apacheextras.camel.xxx - As Maven grou

RE: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ross Gardler
ail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:24 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific > > [ ... ] > > I'd also mention that the Apache Extras projects should not use &

RE: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
es on entities defined in an org.apache-extras.xxx... package. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Luciano Resende [mailto:luckbr1...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:24 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Luciano Resende
I'm replying to the original message as this thread seems to be taking a different direction. Based on the Apache Extras guidelines snippet below: Projects hosted on Apache Extras are not considered official Apache Software Foundation projects and they are also not associated, allied, or otherwis

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On 27.09.2012 13:26, Benson Margulies wrote: > Perhaps I can help here. > > The root of all this, as I understand it, is an optional dependency. > There is, of course, code that depends on the optional dependency. > However, no one has mentioned any *source* code that is under an > incompatible li

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On 27.09.2012 12:34, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 27 September 2012 11:01, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: >> On Thu, September 27, 2012 11:24, Ross Gardler wrote: >>> On 27 September 2012 10:17, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: So an additional binary package including e.g. your Hibernate integration and

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Benson Margulies
Perhaps I can help here. The root of all this, as I understand it, is an optional dependency. There is, of course, code that depends on the optional dependency. However, no one has mentioned any *source* code that is under an incompatible license, such as modified sources of an LGPL component. Th

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 September 2012 11:01, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: > On Thu, September 27, 2012 11:24, Ross Gardler wrote: >> On 27 September 2012 10:17, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: >>> So an additional binary package including e.g. your Hibernate >>> integration >>> and a separate location in SVN/GIT where users can g

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On Thu, September 27, 2012 11:24, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 27 September 2012 10:17, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: >> So an additional binary package including e.g. your Hibernate >> integration >> and a separate location in SVN/GIT where users can get the sources are >> OK >> IMO as long as both are not p

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ross Gardler
On 27 September 2012 10:17, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: > So an additional binary package including e.g. your Hibernate integration > and a separate location in SVN/GIT where users can get the sources are OK > IMO as long as both are not part of your official source distribution. This is not correct. T

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-27 Thread Ulrich Stärk
I agree with Ross. In my understanding the whole issue is a non-issue anyway. See [1]. You are very well allowed to give users instrucions on how to obtain and install OPTIONAL components to your main product that are dependent on software with incompatible licenses. You are just not allowed to in

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-26 Thread Ross Gardler
As I see it the end result of the proposed activity is an Apache community producing GPL code. Extras is not intended to be a way to route around ASF policies relating to licence choice. It is intended to be a place for apache related projects. Others may see it differently. Sent from my tablet O

Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-26 Thread Christian Müller
Hello! A few day ago, I started a thread [1], mainly because we wanted to forward our Camel Extra [2] commit and issue notifications to our regular Camel mailing list. We had some issues with this and asked INFRA for help. Now we realized, there are different understandings what we can do (allowed