Feature Requests item #3009975, was opened at 2010-06-02 03:53 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jevonwright You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=497985&aid=3009975&group_id=61302
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. >Category: Core API Group: None >Status: Closed Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Glyn Normington (glynnormington) >Assigned to: Jevon Wright (jevonwright) Summary: Allow tests using JWebUnit not to have to be GPL'd Initial Comment: The SpringSource dm Server open source project [1] has been successfully using JWebUnit for quite some time. Thanks for providing a great tool. We are in the process of donating dm Server to Eclipse.org as the Virgo open source project [2] and we have hit a problem: we cannot continue to use JWebUnit because of a license incompatibility between the Eclipse Public License and the GPL. (We didn't previously have this problem because dm Server is licensed under the GPL.) Might it be possible to add an exception to the JWebUnit license so that projects which use JWebUnit do not have to be licensed under the GPL? MySQL did something similar [3]. This would enable Virgo to use JWebUnit and may encourage other Eclipse projects to do the same. Alternatively, changing the license of JWebUnit to the Apache Software License v2.0 would be an alternative solution and would open up the use of JWebUnit to many more open source projects. Thanks for your time, Glyn dm Server/Virgo project lead PS. I raised this on jwebunit-users but my post was blocked, so I am raising this feature request to be on the safe side. [1] http://www.springsource.org/dmserver [2] http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/ [3] http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jevon Wright (jevonwright) Date: 2010-06-02 13:03 Message: We recently switched the project licence from GPL to LGPL, which can be linked to, and extended by, by EPL software (I'm using JWebUnit in my EPL project too). I think the next release will have the appropriate license file, etc. As far as I know, as long as you don't modify the JWebUnit code directly (i.e. the content in the JARs), no license change is necessary. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.jwebunit.devel/1767 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=497985&aid=3009975&group_id=61302 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ JWebUnit-development mailing list JWebUnit-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jwebunit-development
