On 2 February 2015 at 13:11, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:

> As far as I know, we can not ship source-release that pulls in LGPL, even to
> test, without the user making an explicit act to knowingly do that and work
> without it.

Some relevant LEGAL issues (which don't really clarify as they ask for
the FAQ to be updated, but that wasn't done)

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-207
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-153

So although it "should" be OK for test runtime only (as our test-code
only compiles/binds with junit, not the eosgi-junit-runner), the best
long-term is probably to explore the pax-exam solution suggested by
Benson.

There's always the risk that someone down-stream will find that OSGi
lib/ auto-packaging made by eosgi useful, and unintentionally add it
to their product without considering the LGPL license.

-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes
Apache Taverna (incubating)
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718

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