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> From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org>
> To: esme-...@incubator.apache.org
> Cc: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Tue, February 16, 2010 11:28:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Approve the release of apache-esme-incubating-1.0
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Richard Hirsch wrote:
> > ...The candidate can be found at:
> >  http://people.apache.org/~rhirsch/esme/
> 
> Unfortunately I'm -1 on the release, I have a few issues including a
> GPL dependency.
> 
> 1) jwebunit dependency is GPL
> The server module depends on
> 
> net.sourceforge.jwebunit:jwebunit-htmlunit-plugin:jar:1.4.1:test
> 
> which according to http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/license.html is GPL.

Well isn't jwebunit a test framework, in which case, (and assuming there
are no dependencies on it in the production-ready codebase of esme) do
we really care that it's GPL or not?  (Note an exception to the (L)GPL
policy was recently granted for build dependencies, so I think it's might
be possible to extend that to test deps.)


      

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