On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> >> ...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? ...
I see your point, one could argue that people don't need jwebunit to *run* ESME, they only need it to run the tests when building it. Still, the code that is distributed contains imports of jwebunit, so I think that's stretching the concept too far. >... (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.)... Might be possible, but getting rid of that jwwebunit dependency would be much cleaner IMO. I haven't checked how much work that represents, but according to http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/ that's "just" a wrapper on top of HtmlUnit which has an Apache license, so using HtmlUnit instead might not be too hard. -Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
