The plugins should be fine. They are not required to build anything (if anyone is super-worried, they can be put in a maven profile; it can be enabled by default for our convenience) and there is a lot of precedent for allowing LGPL tools to work with Apache products.
Donal. Ian Dunlop <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >I noticed that the checkstyle and findbugs code analysis tools are LGPL >licensed. I don't think that matters as long as they are not part of the >distribution. Any thoughts? > >Cheers, > >Ian
