Re: Reading archives..
OK, I couldn't help myself. I was procrastinating anyways, so I
implemented the euca2ools.
It really annoys me how I have managed to torture myself with Java CLI
tools for almost a year, when I could have used this instead. Wow!
euca2ools work really well and are way faster. Not having to set
EC2_HOME, EC2_API_TOOLS_HOME, EC2_AMI_TOOLS_HOME and adding all of
that to PATH is quite a relief.
I will push my changes tonight (GMT+1).
Anders
On 12 November 2012 13:44, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:52:30AM -0500, Brian Gupta wrote:
>> So it looks like the licensing on the cfn-helper scripts is the Amazon
>> Software License which looks like it is not DFSG compliant (
>> http://aws.amazon.com/asl/), is there any chance you could ask Amazon to
>> see if they would consider releasing them under a DFSG-compliant license,
>> or modifying their license to be compliant? (Or if you are too busy, I
>> could ask some folks I know at Amazon, but I'm guessing you guys would have
>> better luck.)
>>
>> I believe the biggest issue is the "Use limitation":
> […]
>> If we can resolve the licensing issue, I would be willing to do the work to
>> create and maintain a package.
>
> As far as I can tell this is not a must to produce images, but would be
> a nice to have. I mention this just to prioritize the issues wrt others.
>
> That said, I agree with your suggestion. Given there is interest also on
> the Amazon side to have Debian listed, we should definitely present this
> as a problem, mentioning that we would like to include the
> CloudFormation helper scripts [1], but that we cannot due to the current
> license.
>
> I guess the most efficient channel to do that is via James, who kindly
> offered to do so. James: feel free to get me in the loop of those
> conversations, if you think it would be useful. Regarding the script
> sources, they seem to point to a source RPM [2] as the most appropriate
> origin for other distros.
>
> Cheers.
>
> [1]: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-helper-scripts-reference.html
> [2]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest.src.rpm
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