I think the Apache policy is quite clear: LGPL and GPL cannot be included in ASF projects.
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html /Janne On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:38:15AM +0200, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote: > Hi all, > > recently found apiviz <http://code.google.com/p/apiviz/>, a doclet which > adds UML class diagrams to javadocs, at package and class levels. It can be > integrated easely with <javadoc>'s Ant task, and generated javadocs look > very nice > (example<http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/netty/freezone/api/3.0/index.html>) > so, I thought it may be can included (got it running inside jspwiki's > build.xml last night). I'm only concerned about it's being lgpl licensed, so > I'm not very sure if we're allowed to use it. Also, this doclet relies on > graphviz <http://www.graphviz.org> for diagram generation, which is CPL > licensed. > > So, the questions are: first, do you think this it is worth having? if > graphviz isn't found, then the doclet falls back to standard javadoc > generation, so if you don't want to use it you're not forced to. And second, > how does the license of this type of external libraries affect JSPWiki > (i.e.: when can we use them)?: in this case we are using a (possibly) > license-conflicting library to generate javadocs, but apiviz is not part of > them, it is used to *generate* them. Don't know if I'm explaining clearly.. > I'm also thinking of cobertura right know, which could be another nicety to > add, but it's GPL licensed. > > regards, > jp
