On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Michael MacFadden <michael.macfad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Benson, > > Yes, Angus had been working this issue for us and found a few third party > Jars. Here is an extract from his email: > > ---------- > There's a couple of things going on at once at the moment: > -i'm in contact with the libIDN author, who is happy to release the > software under the Apache license, which means we can keep using that once > a new release comes out > -the other two libraries junit and emma both think the best option is to > obfuscate the code somehow like ant, if anyone has any experience in doing > it speaking up would be greatly appreciated > ----------- > > > Apparently, there is some precedent for obfuscating third party jars. My > assumption is that something about the license views distributing Java > jars as being akin to a source distribution do to the ease of > decompilation.
I cannot think of any reason why any Apache project should be concerned with obfuscation or decompilation. We are open source, and our dependencies are open source. Junit is a testing tool, so you should never need to redistribute it, just arrange to have it available for builds, and maven or ant/ivy will do that, and the same with emma, which is another development tool. There are many examples of this at other project. If it would be helpful, I could join the dev list to help with the discussion here. > > Angus, > > Can you she some light on this? > > ~Michael > > On 12/3/12 12:54 PM, "Benson Margulies" <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Dear Wave, >> >>I don't understand the remark in your report about the need to >>'obfuscate' third party jar files. Could you please elaborate? Do you >>have problems with dependencies with incompatible licenses, or >>something else? >> >>Thanks, >>Benson >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
