On 6 Sep 2007, at 17:20, Gwyn Evans wrote:
While agreeing that it's something that needs looking at closely, I'm not I'm not sure it's downbeat as I think you're suggesting. The 3rd-party licencing policy at http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html redirects to the draft at http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html, but that suggests that, especially for use in binary form, licences such as CDDL or CPL aren't necessarily incompatible...
That is exactly where the "category B" is coming from. Do we need to wait until ASF gets the 3rd party license policy completed?
Please note that it would be *impossible* for us to work without some of the category B libraries, such as the JUnit testing library. Also, things like JavaMail libraries are highly useful for our user experience (e.g. sending email in case the user forgets his password). If there is an Apache-compatible implementation available, then fine.
There are some custom licenses out there where we would need help from ASF's lawyers to check whether the licenses are really ok. Having to reimplement e.g. a permissive HTML-parser or a caching library would be a real PITA.
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