recent board decree (saw it first on the infrastructure list) (paraphrasing): the ASF must not distribute software packages (in any form) licensed under LGPL, GPL or Sun Binary Code License in any way.
Sun's Binary Code license permits bundling as part of your Programs. The short form of this: you can include such things in tars and zips for your release, but for individually download. In other words, users need not feel the pain, but developers do.
Personally, if there are open source alternatives, my recommendation is that they should be supported instead.
I've identified the following jars in avalon CVS repositories which seem like they should be removed based on the information above:
- checkstyle (jakarta-avalon-apps/tools/checkstyle-all.jar and
other places) (LGPL)
If available, then checkstyle can be used during a build - this should not be any different than using EMACs. Preferably, the build should skip this step if checkstyle is not available.
- Sam Ruby
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