Thanks Jean, David, and Francois for your suggestion that I amend
BUILDING.txt. Now I'm back to an etiquette question: I'm hoping to check
in a JUnit assertion-based test. Since the test needs JUnit to build, my
patch will break everyone's build: they will have to download the junit
jar themselves. This could annoy a lot of folks. What is the etiquette
for breaking the build this way?
Thanks,
-Rick
Jean T. Anderson wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Oh bother, said Pooh.. We'd like to write assertion-based tests. What
do folks think we should do:
o Ask JUnit to license itself under the Apache license.
o Use some other assertion-based test framework. Any suggestions?
You can use Junit with no problem at all -- and other Apache projects
do. You just can't check it into subversion.
The DITA toolkit needed additional handling because we need to check
some of the files into subversion; we found that just downloading it
wasn't sufficient for what we needed.
-jean
-Rick
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Subject:
Re: subversion etiquette
From:
"Jean T. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:31:48 -0700
To:
Derby Development <[email protected]>
To:
Derby Development <[email protected]>
Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Sometime soon I hope to checkin some JUnit-based tests for testing the
compatibility of our clients and servers. As part of this
submission, I
want to checkin the JUnit jar itself (into tools/java alongside the
other jars). Is it ok for the svn diff to contain a big binary file
like
this? Will this annoy/confuse reviewers? Is there a more polite way to
submit jar files?
I'm not sure you can check Junit's jar into Apache's subversion
repository due to its licence (CPL 0.5).
http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm#overview_7
Dan is correct; we cannot check CPL-licensed software/files into Apache.
For example, we couldn't check DITA Open Toolkit files into the derby
svn repository because it is under CPL. We discussed the issue with
the DITA OT developers and they additionally released it under the
ASL 2 at the end of August.
Discussions about various licenses pop up on this list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/ .
-jean
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