Thanks for letting us know Steve. In Oozie, it's only included as a test scope dependency and used only for unit tests, so I think we're good here.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Kevan Miller <kevan.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Steve. For clarity: > > This message announces a license switch for Greenmail -- > http://sourceforge.net/p/greenmail/mailman/message/58953/ > However, some/most/all of the src license headers are still labeled as > LGPL. There would also be general questions about the license switch -- > were all necessary copyrights properly held to make this license switch? > And subsequent to the switch were all changes/contributions made under > ALv2? > > Depending on the outcome of these questions, you may or may not want to > treat the greenmail dependency as LGPL. Assuming it is held to be LGPL, > then a question of how the dependency is used? Bundling an LGPL dependency > is bad. Direct source linkage to LGPL, likewise. Simple build / test maven > dependency would be OK from an ASF perspective... > > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Steve Rowe <sar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, my name is Steve Rowe, and I'm a member of the Apache Lucene PMC. > > > > We recently discovered that the "greenmail" Java library, which declares > > its license as ASLv2 in its POM and elsewhere, has LGPL license headers > in > > its source code files. In response the Lucene project reverted a recent > > commit containing this depedency. > > > > I conducted a survey of current Apache releases and found that four > Apache > > projects include source code that links to the "greenmail" library: > > Syncope, OODT, Oozie and Geronimo. Additionally, Axis2 has a Maven POM > > that includes a "greenmail" dependency, though I couldn't find any > current > > releases containing this dependency. Details are posted on < > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-206>; I would appreciate > your > > project's involvement. > > > > An issue was filed with the greenmail project on Sourceforge earlier this > > year asking for clarification < > http://sourceforge.net/p/greenmail/bugs/8/>, > > but there has been no response on that issue, or any other issue, for > that > > matter - the project may be dead, as it has seen no activity for some > time. > > > > Steve > > >
