Glad finnally you point this out. The licenses shouldn't the excuse to cease OFBiz's progress.
I think it's easy enough to write such things in build.xml and download the jars during build though the jars are not allowed to put into Apache's svn. Shi Yusen/Beijing Langhua Ltd. 在 2008-11-13四的 20:39 +0100，Pierre Smits写道： > Several times now I have seen statement that non Apache-products can't or > shouldn't be used because they gpl or hpl (even worse as somebody > mentioned). That sounds like 'we don't want it, because we (as in ASF > commiters) didn't invent it. > > In my humble opinion this is not kosher. If a good product is out there and > it has an open source licence, it can be used. The only thing required is a > set of instructions how to use and/or include it in a user own installation > of OFBiz. > > Regards, > > Pierre. > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ean Schuessler wrote: > > > Cobertura is a good Free Software alternative to Clover. It may not be > > everything that Clover is but its certainly not too bad. > > > > Except that it is gpl. There are no apache-compatible coverage tools. > > I looked :( > > > > However, any modifications I can come up with to ofbiz, to make it have > > a plugin-type model for supporting any byte-code-modifying coverage > > tool, would be under the correct license. > > > > ps: Hint - I already have this plugin mostly done, just haven't written > > an implementation. > >
