Thanks Joe and Bertrand. Point taken. Better to be safe and respectful than sorry. I'll continue the discussion on the ESME list alone.
Ethan On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > 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
