Christian Lippka schreef: > Am 06.06.2011 00:28, schrieb Simon Brouwer: >> Op 5-6-2011 19:19, Christian Lippka schreef: >>> Hi Ralph, >>> >>> Am 05.06.2011 18:46, schrieb Ralph Goers: >>>> On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >>>>>> I posted a similar statement yesterday. Personally, I think the >>>>>> traffic >>>>>> on this list has settled down a lot in the last 24 hours and is now >>>>>> focusing in on topics more relevant to this list. But maybe that >>>>>> is just >>>>>> because it was Saturday :-) >>>>> Most of the sniping^H^H^H^Hdiscussion has moved over to the >>>>> libreoffice >>>>> lists at this point. >>>>> >>>>>> What I am still waiting to hear on are: >>>>>> 1. The amount of code in the project that the grant didn't give >>>>>> to us >>>>>> under the Apache License. >>>>> Not a blocker for starting incubation. IOW we don't ask for this >>>>> level of >>>>> detail from other podlings. >>>> It might be a blocker for my vote. You are, of course, free to vote >>>> differently. This is a much larger project than usually enters the >>>> incubator. I'm worried that if the project has too much of this >>>> kind of work to deal with it will kill the community. >>> If I understand you correctly, your question is if the supplied set >>> of source files is missing something to >>> make this a working project. >>> >>> As stated earlier, the list of source files provided look like a 1:1 >>> copy from the mercurial >>> repository available at OpenOffice.org. >> >> I was looking at that, but I have the impression that the source code >> for a number of "external" projects is not present in the mercurial >> checkout and still has to be retrieved as part of the building >> process. There are makefiles, patches etc., but no source code worth >> mentioning, in subdirectories stlport, openssl, hunspell, libxslt... >> >> It might be all of these: http://hg.services.openoffice.org/binaries/ > Yes and no. Usually external project would be build in modules like > stlport, openssl etc. The archives with the sources would be in the > above url. But what is missing > are the patches to those external source archives.
OK, so these patches should be added to the software grant, hardly a problem I should think. But a practical matter is whether ASF can provide a similar repository of "external project" archives, which much simplifies the build process, or is the policy not to distribute any source under non-ASL licenses strictly maintained? -- Vriendelijke groet, Simon Brouwer -*- nl.openoffice.org -*- http://www.opentaal.org -*- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
