On Feb 13, 2008 2:45 PM, Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downloaded junit 4.4. It comes with a BSD license. I notice that > we don't check junit.jar into our codeline however. Is the BSD license > incompatible with Apache 2.0? I am not a lawyer, but it seems that we > would satisfy the conditions of the junit license if we included a > copyright notice and disclaimer in our NOTICE file. > > Other opinions?
If we don't redistribute it in any of our release artifacts, I don't believe there's a need to add any notice. There are plenty of examples of other projects that have checked junit.jar into the repository, and do not give notice in their NOTICES file. See, e.g.: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/java/trunk/tools/ http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lenya/trunk/lib/ and notice in Xerces's case that they include the license along the jar. If you plan on checking it in, there's a JIRA for it: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1671 I was going to do it, but then abandoned it after somebody expressed concern about JUnit 3.8.2 not working in some environment and figured I would continue to leave it up to individuals to get the right one for their environment. I don't remember offhand what the issue was, but it's probably better in the long run to go ahead and check in a version that works for most people. Just make sure it is properly excluded from the release distributions. Thanks, Andrew
