On 5/3/06, Mike Kienenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/3/06, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > having dependency on these should be fine IMHO (regarding licensing), > since some ASF projects depend on JavaMail as well ([1] and [2]) > > -Matthias > > [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/email/ > [2] http://james.apache.org/ Just because some projects are doing it now doesn't mean it's ok.
CDDL (the license for the jars in question) is on the Category B list, which means you can use these as binary dependencies, as long as the appropriate notifications are included in the NOTICE.txt file. I'd recommend looking at this document for all of your licensing questions:
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html
Good advice. Craig
