The problem was that the javascript "programs" themselves are GPL. See threads
http://www.nabble.com/Cobertura-%2B-downloaded-sites-concern-to14974449.html#a14974449 http://www.nabble.com/-all--Cobertura...-to15654446.html#a15654446 http://apache.markmail.org/message/luukuehijisvoawo#query:+page:1+mid:luukuehijisvoawo+state:results Happily the issue was resolved https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-19 michael Samuel Robert Reid wrote: > GPL itself says output from a GPL program is not covered: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput > > Sam Reid > > Michael Heuer wrote: > > allain wrote: > > > > My reasons for wanting to do this are: > - Obviously Code Coverage Metrics are good but this one is IDE > agnostic. > - It has a Hudson plugin that can be installed allowing us to diagram > the (hopefully) increasing progression of code coverage over time in a > nice convenient graph. > > http://wiki.hudson-ci.org//display/HUDSON/Cobertura+Plugin > > > The javascript code used in the Cobertura reports themselves are > licensed under the GPL, and there was concern in e.g. the Apache > Commons community that distributing those reports violates the terms > of the license. You may find some discussion threads in archives of > the commons-dev mailing list. I can't recall what the resolution of > the issue was though. > > michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Piccolo2D Developers Group: http://groups.google.com/group/piccolo2d-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
