Francis Galiegue skrev:
> As I understand it, the community-port-to-4.6 branch is dedicated to
> the community. I therefore propose that the next-to-come
> qt-jambi-4.6.x depend on ant-contrib for the build process. Should the
> consensus turn out to be in favor of integrating it, I stress out the
> fact that I'll start integrating ant-contrib ONLY when I'm done with
> the build branch.
>   

If you are actually considering physically integrating the 
ant-contrib.jar-file like before, please bear in mind the consequences 
for the licensing of Qt Jambi. Ant-contrib is licensed under the Apache 
license, which I believe is a GPL3-compatible license, but incompatible 
with LGPL and GPL2. I may be wrong about this, but as far as I could 
see, this is the case. Any user of Qt Jambi who currently depends on 
either LGPL or GPL2 will thus not be able to use this branch of Qt 
Jambi, as the new branch would have to be licensed under GPL version 3.

The bottom line is that commercial users of Qt Jambi will not be able to 
upgrade to the community version and therefore not to Qt 4.6, which I 
would consider a significant downside.

As long as ant-contrib is available on all supported platforms, I don't 
mind adding a dependency on it for the community version, but I would 
vote against adding the actual .jar-file to the repository.

-- Eskil




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