Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94BCDD261 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11411 invoked by uid 500); 29 Oct 2012 12:58:11 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 11198 invoked by uid 500); 29 Oct 2012 12:58:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 11177 invoked by uid 99); 29 Oct 2012 12:58:10 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:58:10 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of bimargulies@gmail.com designates 209.85.210.175 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.210.175] (HELO mail-ia0-f175.google.com) (209.85.210.175) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:58:05 +0000 Received: by mail-ia0-f175.google.com with SMTP id b35so3836705iac.6 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:57:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=6Rcxb8uNiXt8J/JQQ1zTWjO5j3ULlrRgzJ7QguDuKhE=; b=QQY7K1kNBbHGeMVsJl4osfbv+tu2P8zmBcBGvs7GvBXFqAapAOGPVVB8MINJuF9kC8 gCYUsjSmRaDVRYhv0/QvIW80FFhGMx40q3bJzlkiflm0Zw3f4d49mWBzBqJvcAfq1J8Z sqKMlXruzs43/CCPMPBar186h9MZnClJWEHABnlaOLCvLvr4OuTSqrfSOb9FkgYRyMPA v+NbWbBFF9oKuQJPTwh2QGpyC1gj1ps0pBpS5S/yM6Lg0jkgPIl4p7uc2s27fUPyJ+Pc HXz841Wk3nfKkrxaCS1wKak/Myobq6nxwt7QeMUN52MB+Jfuii0F7FO0KzDnnG9WHK3r iQ8A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.203.10 with SMTP id km10mr9425212igc.54.1351515464855; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.67.203 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:57:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <508E3DBB.5060207@holeczek.de> References: <508E3DBB.5060207@holeczek.de> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:57:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Shipping binary file in CloudStack release From: Benson Margulies To: general@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Florian Holeczek wrote: > Hi Noah, > >> We're just voting on our first release, and I spotted this file in the root >> of the source: >> >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=blob_plain;f=waf;hb=HEAD >> >> It seems to be a sort of hybrid source/binary file. Very strange. >> >> Can we ship this? > > it's this one: http://code.google.com/p/waf/ > The website says it's licensed under the "New BSD License". This file is a an installer for an entire subsystem of python stuff, encoded with python pickle, built by their build script. If I understand what's going on, running it unpacks a tree of python *source*. So, it's no more good (or bad) than shipping a .tar.bz2 of some category A open source code (given the license). It would be more better, I suppose, to grab the corresponding source tree and run their build script as part of your build script, but I'm a bit puzzled as to whether this, as is, is actually a problem. > > Regards > Florian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org