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Re: [tools-pmc] [CQ 3384] autoconf support files Version: varies
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Hi,
According to Eclipse legal, the PMC needs to make a determination as
to whether this dependency is a "works-with" or "pre-req" (see http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf
for more details).
To summarize the situation, PTP requires the following components to
be distributed as C source code:
- a parallel debugger
- a resource manager agent to interface to the IBM PE system
- a resource manager agent to interface to the LoadLeveler job scheduler
- a resource manager agent to interface to the SLURM job scheduler
The components are distributed as source code because maintaining
binary builds for all possible architectures is impractical (we did
this for early releases of PTP and found that it quickly became a
support nightmare.) Distributing as source code overcomes some
problems, but introduces others. In particular, building from source
is complicated because of the dependencies on pre-installed system
software and libraries. To overcome this, we currently use the
autoconf/automake tools to manage the build dependency issues.
Unfortunately, autoconf/automake requires a small number of files be
distributed with the source code in order to correctly configure and
build the source. Nearly all of these support files are GNU licensed,
but include the following license exemption:
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
program.
One other file is licensed under the MIT public license.
I believe these dependencies fall into the "exempt pre-req" category
for the reasons listed in the CQ, but now throw it open to discussion
by the PMC.
I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have about this CQ.
Thanks,
Greg
this CQ is to approve
On Jul 21, 2009, at 6:33 AM, emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3384
Barb Cochrane <barb.cochrane@xxxxxxxxxxx> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Severity|new |awaiting_pmc
Flag|PMC_Approved+ |
--- Comment #8 from Barb Cochrane <barb.cochrane@xxxxxxxxxxx>
2009-07-21 09:31:14 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
Barb,
I'd say this this falls into the "exempt prereq" category for the
following
reasons:
- the third party software is required for the software to work
correctly (in
this case it is required for installation rather than operation)
- the third party software is pervasive
- it is probably impractical to undertake an IP review
Greg
Thanks Greg. The process for reviewing "exempt pre-reqs" is
documented in the
link on comment6, I would very roughly summarize it as follows:
1) PMC has a transparent discussion and conclusion on PMC mailing
list (please
see link for details regarding topics for consideration, in addition
to any
other items the PMC and project may identify)
2) PMC updates this CQ with a note that the discussion has
happened, a link to
it, and a vote (+1, -1)
3) EMO votes on this CQ
I will reset the vote and mark this CQ in "awaiting PMC" state until
we see an
update that the discussion has happened on the PMC mailing list.
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