Re: JSPWiki 2.6.0 release

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:18:58 -0800 

Hi Murray,
Distributions of Apache projects must follow this guidance: http:// people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html 


JUnit uses the Common Public License which is an Apache Category B  
license, suitable for distribution by an Apache project as a binary.



If an Apache project uses LGPL libraries, it must not distribute  
them. And although it's not an absolute rule, a project that uses  
LGPL won't graduate from incubation.


Craig

On Nov 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Murray Altheim wrote:


Janne Jalkanen wrote:
[...]

The question is: who can commit time to fix our web unit tests  
using whatever they fancy, if we consider that to be the only  
blocking factor for 2.6 release?  If the answer involves any of  
the words "nobody", "christmas", or "holiday", I'm going to a)  
scream, and b) release.  May be sloppy, but really - our webtests  
are in a really, really awful shape.


Janne,


I suppose one question is permitted from the ignorant: I realize  
Apache

wants everything to be Apache-licensed, but LGPL is hardly a problem

license. Is there a *hard* requirement that everything released as  
part

of an Apache software project be *all* Apache-licensed? I.e., is it
possible we could continue to use JUnit? It's what we all know and if
we were able to put any time into fixing unit tests I'd personally
rather invest that time into fixing tests than learning Yet Another

Software Package. Another alternative (at least for the interim) is  
that

we continue to use JUnit but not include those files in the Apache
distribution. If that's possible it would give us a window at least.

Murray


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