Cost would be $125US.

-Peter


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From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: New Clover plugin


> On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 01:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'd be happy to talk to the guys @ Cortex about a $0 license for us -
> > they're in my city :)
>
> Even though it would be $0 for us, I'm not particularly keen on Maven
> being a vehicle for the Clover revenue stream.
>
> David Peugh has been working on integrating quilt and I think we should
> support that effort as it's an Apache style license and people using
> Maven wouldn't be forced into purchasing a license as they would be if
> using Clover.
>
> I definitely think the integration of a coverage tool is important which
> is why I have been working with David Peugh on BCEL and Quilt from the
> very start. He's been working on the some nasty classloader issues (Bob,
> you might want to talk to David about the wacky Ant classloader issues
> you're having with Junit) but the first shot at Maven integration is
> done. David sent me the first attempt but I'm jumping on a plane
> tomorrow so I won't be able to do anything. I asked that David make the
> attempt soon as I would rather encourage the use of Quilt over Clover.
>
> Clover looks great and I think the Cortex folk would love to keep us
> happy and let us do the work integrating Clover but the licensing still
> sucks. Which is why David started Quilt while working on his projects at
> DARPA because the cost of coverage tools is just ridiculous.
>
> Did the Clover people say how much people would have to pay in order to
> use it with their projects? Something like: free for OSS projects,
> otherwise your first born.
>
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> >
> > "Peter Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 06/16/02 02:27 PM
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> >         To:     "Turbine Maven Developers List"
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> >         Subject:        Re: New Clover plugin
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> >
> > Here is a convo I had with someone at Clover headquarters about licensing.
> > He
> > mentioned Maven integration before I did, so maybe he is on this list ;-):
> >
> > -------8<----------
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > > Sorry, but I am missing something. What about if a commercial
> > > company wants to just 'use', not develop the open source
> > > project which has freely licensed Clover?
> > > The open source project by it's license requires no payment
> > > in this case. Will the commercial company need a seperate
> > > clover license costing $125.00 in this case?
> > >
> >
> > My apologies - we haven't explained ourselves very well.
> >
> > As an example, consider the Maven open source project. Maven could obtain
> > a
> > $0 Clover license. This would allow the Clover binary to be distributed
> > with
> > the source distribution of Maven, for the sole purpose of contributing to
> > the open source development of Maven.
> >
> > If a commercial company downloads Maven, and uses it to manage the build
> > of
> > their own project, they would not be licensed to
> > use Clover for their project. They would indeed need a separate Clover
> > license.
> >
> > Licensing for Clover is yet to be finalised. Our goal is to make Clover
> > freely available for open source projects to use, while still providing us
> > with some income from commercial users to support ongoing development of
> > Clover. We welcome all feedback on how we can better achieve this balance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Brendan
> >
> > ----
> > Brendan Humphreys
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > Cortex eBusiness
> > http://www.cortexebusiness.com.au
> >
> > ----------8<----------------
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "bob mcwhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Turbine Maven Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 12:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: New Clover plugin
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > I'm eager to commit but I wanted to check with you first ... :-)
> > > >
> > > > Note: The only "issue" that I can see is that clover is free for all
> > > > non-commercial projects only (however, Cortex, the company creating
> > > > Clover seem ok for us to redistribute the clover jar).
> > >
> > > +1 if we can get definite clue as to license issues.
> > >
> > > Do we have lawyers to look at this kind of thing?
> > >
> > > > It is a plugin I'd like to see integrated in Maven as it is the best
> > > > test coverage tool that I have seen and by far. The problem is that I
> > > > don't know how I could write such a plugin with no impact on existing
> > > > ones (core, test, doc). The same issue will happen with
> > > > Jalopy/JRefactory (but it is easier for them as they don't need to
> > > > modify the compile target, etc).
> > >
> > > Hopefully maven-ng will make plugins such as this
> > > easier to do.
> > >
> > > -bob
> > >
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