Re: Shipping 3rd party sources? [Re: [Ganglia-developers] BuildRequires: rrdtool-devel]

[Stu T. <st...@dr...>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:43:13AM -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> Bernard,
>  So, my question is: is it still a good idea to ship 3rd party stuff?
> On Linux, you usually have that stuff installed (or can get a RPM). On
> the other platforms you can always get the code from somewhere else
> easily. Dropping the 3rd party code from the sources would make the
> following issues simpler or go away:
> 
> - licensing. I do not care to much, but others apparently do
> - upgrading to newer versions of the 3rd party stuff.

From a packaging POV, not including 3rd party sources makes my life 
easier, but that's a relatively minor issue. From a knowing what I can 
get away with POV though it would be handy if the only source trees in 
the distro were ones that have been modified for ganglia itself.

Licencing unfortunately does matter to me, as if there's licence issues 
the debian ftpmasters shout at me :).

Stu
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