Hi Jevon, Here is the list of JWebUnit contributors: http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/team-list.html
Regards, Julien ----- Message d'origine ---- > De : Jevon Wright <je...@jevon.org> > À : JWebUnit Development mail list > <jwebunit-development@lists.sourceforge.net> > Envoyé le : Mardi, 15 Septembre 2009, 6h52mn 58s > Objet : Re: [JWebUnit-development] Re : JWebUnit licence > > Hi Julien, > > Do you have the contact details of other committers for JWebUnit? > > I've spent a while doing some research into this... though of course I > am still not a lawyer. Both Apache and LGPL sound fine. But I think > Apache allows for redistribution and modification without source or > credit. > > A statement on the LGPL states inheritance is the same as linking > within LGPL [1], so as long as the end-user can replace the LGPL > library, I don't think subclasses (test cases) would have to also be > under LGPL. A work which modifies JWebUnit source code has to still > still reproduce these changes under LGPL if the changes are > distributed. > > Also, it seems that if you distribute an LGPL JAR, you also have to > distribute the JAR's source code. Alternatively, the end-user can > download and install the JAR themselves. > > Of course none of this is necessary if the test cases or modifications > aren't distributed. > > Jevon > > [1]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Julien HENRY wrote: > > Hi Jevon, > > > > Initially, JWebUnit licence was BSD based and I changed it to GPL after the > > major rewrite I did 3 years ago. This was done to avoid someone doing > > modification of JWebUnit without redistribution. > > > > My purpose was not to limit JWebUnit usage. According to me a TestCase > > extending JWebUnit base test class is not a derivative work but fall under > > the "classpath link". AFAIK Java is a complicate topic because GPL was > > initially designed for C-like languages (with the notion of code link). > > > > One of the previous project leader (Martijn Dashort) pointed out that my > > licence change was not totally "clean" as I concede I didn't rewrite 100% of > > the code base. Therefore, JWebUnit is not such a critical project and there > > were not so much contributors to ask. So we can discuss what would be the > > ideal licence and try to do the switch. > > > > HtmlUnit project has much more contributors and they managed to do the > > switch to Apache licence. I don't think they asked all their past > > contributors for a written agreement... > > > > As of today my preference would be an Apache licence (very similar to BSD > > AFAIK) or perhaps LGPL. I also heard about "classpath exception" but I don't > > remember if it applies to GPL. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Julien > > > > ________________________________ > > De : Jevon Wright > > À : JWebUnit Development mail list > > > > Envoyé le : Mercredi, 9 Septembre 2009, 2h09mn 38s > > Objet : [JWebUnit-development] JWebUnit licence > > > > Hi, > > > > I know this would require legal advice, but since JWebUnit is licenced > > under the GPL, does this mean that it cannot be used with Eclipse > > projects licenced under EPL, as test cases would be a derivative work > > of JWebUnit? Any thoughts? > > > > Cheers > > > > Jevon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > > on > > what you do best, core application coding. 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