On 16/11/2009, at 7:35 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

>> 
>>> We are likely to make some modifications, if we haven't already, and so 
>>> it's easier not to put it here. If we made anything more then minimal 
>>> changes we have to back it out.
>> 
>> You mean 
>> http://svn.sonatype.org/m2eclipse/sandbox/trunk/maven-performance-tests/org.eclipse.test.performance.patch
>>  here? Everything else in 
>> http://svn.sonatype.org/m2eclipse/sandbox/trunk/maven-performance-tests/ is 
>> under ALv2?
>> 
> 
> They actually should probably be EPL because it would be nice if they could 
> ultimately go back to Eclipse.

You can dual license it like Jetty did, but I don't quite understand - this 
looks like a performance testing framework for Maven, not m2e.

> 
>> If that is the case, can't we commit the patch & EPL'd binary to the SVN 
>> repo here (or put the binary in a Maven repository), and submit the patches 
>> upstream in the hope that we only need to use the official Eclipse binary 
>> down the track?
>> 
>> This shouldn't be a problem in general - we aren't checking in any EPL 
>> sources. And further, we aren't intending to redistribute the performance 
>> framework as a release anyway.
>> 
> 
> I definitely plan to release this for people to test. We're working on trying 
> to make it dead simple for people to materialize Maven inside M2Eclipse along 
> with the integration tests and the performance tests. It needs to be very 
> easy for people try this. I like the source way, you and Brian like the 
> binary way of packaging up the ITs. So I plan to try both.
> 
> I don't want to be hindered by a licensing policy to make quick changes at 
> the source level or have remove the possibility of releasing.
> 
> So 1) it's unclear as almost everything is here legally, and 2) it's too 
> limited and cumbersome even in its current form and 3) it's not any less 
> convenient checking it out of one place over another. The goals is to make it 
> easy for people who want to try this.

Sorry, but I can't parse what you are saying here. I don't see what you are 
talking about releasing - the framework looks designed to run from source.

Perhaps you could provide more information on how you intend for it to be used 
here - I'm going on the README.txt.

- Brett


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