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 6CA4B17AB9 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 95025 invoked by uid 500); 23 Oct 2014 17:28:31 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 94812 invoked by uid 500); 23 Oct 2014 17:28:31 -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 94743 invoked by uid 99); 23 Oct 2014 17:28:31 -0000 Received: from mail-relay.apache.org (HELO mail-relay.apache.org) (140.211.11.15) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:28:31 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (unknown [151.67.89.95]) by mail-relay.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mail-relay.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id C37101A02FC; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <54493703.1040108@apache.org> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:28:25 +0200 From: Andrea Pescetti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Convenience Binary Policy References: <27DE8F40-CE4A-4553-AD02-39FA4CF98B28@classsoftware.com> <5445E4FF.40507@apache.org> <0CB3B5DE-093C-44F7-9B7B-4E53FD194724@gmail.com> <54466D6C.1000904@apache.org> <5448C081.1010605@apache.org> In-Reply-To: <5448C081.1010605@apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 23/10/2014 brane wrote: > On 22.10.2014 03:02, Justin Mclean wrote: >> You may possibly be forgetting about Category B licensed >> dependancies. These may only be included in binary form in an >> Apache product. ... > I have trouble visualising how any ASF project could have > /mandatory/ dependencies on anything from the B-list. If I understand correctly, we are speaking about optional dependencies rather than mandatory dependencies. But the distinction, especially if you look at the information Dennis already discussed, might not always be clear: for OpenOffice, one of those dependencies is the spell checker (external library, Hunspell). So: our source release can perfectly come without a spell checker, builds fine and works. Technically this is an "optional" dependency and everything is correct and in accordance with the ASF rules. Still, for a user it would be quite problematic if we removed the spell checker from the convenience binaries... So this is not mandatory but it's still a "must have" for our final users, and given the OpenOffice audience it totally makes sense that the project recommends a convenience binary that already comes with some optional features included. Regards, Andrea. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org