What I find strange in all this discussion about tools that are licensed under
LGPL is, why does it matter if you do not use the tool in the actual code of
the project.
It does not matter in that case. It only matters when use of the code restricts the license under which our own code is distributed beyond the Apache license.
Take for example Checkstyle, you use this tool to check that your code conforms to a coding standard. Checkstyle does NOT:
- modify project source code in anyway; - need to be imported/linked/referenced in project source code; or - need to be shipped in project deliverables.
So if all of this is accepted, why does it matter that Checkstyle is licensed
under LGPL? It is not being "viral".
It doesn't matter. However, it also doesn't need to be distributed from the ASF servers. There is no reason that developers couldn't use it -- we use dozens of such tools for httpd development.
....Roy
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