On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 22:28 +0100, sebb wrote:
> Does the release actually *include* JUnit, or is that only used for
> testing? If so, then it should not be the in the NOTICE file, nor in
> the binary release.

We have a source and binary distribution with the same NOTICE and
LICENSE texts in both artifacts. While we don't want/need to ship the
junit jar in the binary distribution (see CASSANDRA-417), shipping it in
the source artifact is intentional.

> Is ANTLR actually needed at run-time, or is it only needed for
> building the code?

It's only used to build.

> I'm not sure whether it needs to be mentioned in NOTICE if it is only
> used at build-time.

I had thought it was needed when redistributing code with the terms that
require it (and as far as I know, that's only Apache License 2.0). I was
told on this list (repeatedly), that I was wrong. Now I'm just confused.
Again.

> It should not be in the binary release if it's not needed at run-time.

Agreed (CASSANDRA-417), but again, shipping a copy in the source
artifact is intentional, (hence the entries in NOTICE and LICENSE).

> The NOTICE file mentions SLF4J, which AIUI is a logging abstraction -
> does the binary release include a logging implementation? If so, it
> will need to be documented in the LICENSE and NOTICE.

We use log4j for logging, but we require/ship thrift which in turn
requires slf4j.

> >  It would be great if we could get these reviewed ahead of time so
> that
> >  any feedback could be incorporated before the next release vote.
> 
> It's not possible to be definitive about the files without knowing
> what libraries are actually going to be included in the binary
> release.

There haven't been any changes since the last review, (see
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/trunk/lib).

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

-- 
Eric Evans
eev...@rackspace.com


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