Ok. We are faced with a soon release of Avalon#, with a language most of us
don't know a great deal about. The language barrier should not stop us, but
we do have some things we need to manage. This is a PMC discussion, but I
CC'd developers so they can eavesdrop.
The first order of business is ensuring the licensing of the code. Is it
directly making use of GPL or LGPL code? I.e. if Log4Net is GPL/LPGL then
we cannot have it in CVS, and we would have to develop a real way to separate
its use completely. Again, NUnit and Nant are used. Nant is a tool, and as
such does not necessarily require that we exclude its use, just that we require
our users to install it separately. It does have an installer. NUnit is a
bit different, and if I recall has what I thought was a compatible license.
We need to verify that. Also, we need to know if there are any other 3rd
party libraries/utilities. The last time I checked, I think we are in the
clear--we just need to do another verification before any release is
concidered.
Log4Net is clear: ASL license NAnt must be a separate download, and the best we can do is provide a link to their web page. It is GPL, but it is a tool that is meant to be installed, and it uses an XML file just like ANT to do the build. NUnit is a little less clear. It uses the "zlib/libpng License", does anyone know if that works with ASL? The link is here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/nunit/nunit20/license.rtf
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It looks compatible to me.
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