Here is a handy reference: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a
MIT licenses are fine as dependencies. The basic principle is that dependencies that don't force any special restrictions on how users license software that includes Apache code are fine. Thus, public domain, Apache license, MIT and BSD are all completely fine. At most, these require acknowledgement. Where there is a problem is with share-alike or GPL since these kinds of dependencies Apache to change their license and force downstream users into particular licensing models. Regardless of whether that is a universal good or not, it isn't what Apache does. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Yingyi Bu <[email protected]> wrote: > I previously added the maven test dependency MockIto (a simple and amazing > mock unit test library) in my local branch. But I just realized it is > under MIT license: https://github.com/mockito/mockito/blob/master/LICENSE > > Does anyone know if that's OK or not? > It looks another Apache project does have MIT licensed dependency: > http://curator.apache.org/dependencies.html > Thanks! > > Best, > Yingyi >
