On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:44, Hyrum K. Wright
> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Justin Erenkrantz <
> justin_at_erenkrantz.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Hyrum K. Wright
> >> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> >> > 1) Is there a guide somewhere about how to use the ASF mirrors and
> >> > release
> >> > infrastructure?
> >>
> >> http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html
> >>
> >> > 2) Is it possible for us to move the existing tarballs to somewhere on
> >> > ASF
> >> > infrastructure, so that we can maintain a complete archive of all past
> >> > releases (without having to split up said archive)?
> >>
> >> Possible, yes, as there is no legal obstruction in doing so - however,
> >> I'll leave it to Greg to provide a recommendation here. My suggestion
> >> would be to import the old releases into archive.apache.org - but this
> >> is a bit of uncharted territory for the ASF, so there may be some
> >> policy wrangling that is best left to Greg. -- justin
> >
> > Greg,
> > This looks like a good location, do you know what needs to happen so I
> can
> > get the appropriate privs to upload to the subversion/ directory there?
> >
> > Also, I'm planning on just putting the release tarballs, not the deps
> > tarballs. Any reason why we should include the deps tarballs?
>
> Ah. Thanks for the reminder.
>
> Do the deps have code that is less permissive than the Apache license?
> e.g MPL or LGPL (or GPL!) ?
>
Not sure. In the current set of tarballs, we've got sqlite, serf, apr,
apr-util, neon, zlib, and possibly apr-iconv (in the zips). In the pre-1.4
days, we actually included the current deps in the shipping Subversion
tarballs, but it might have been just apr, apr-util and neon at that point.
> I believe we should have no problem with the svn tarballs themselves,
> and will follow up on legal-discuss with that.
>
> Note that archive.apache.org is not mirrored. The mirroring system
> applies just to current releases.
>
That's fine. I'm just looking to consolidate our artifacts in one location
as part of the asymptotic move away from tigris.
-Hyrum
Received on 2010-04-26 18:20:09 CEST