Yes, I've had the same discussion with Brendan and he confirmed that Maven could redistribute the clover jar. Thanks -Vincent
> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 16 June 2002 05:28 > To: Turbine Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: New Clover plugin > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:turbine-maven-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:turbine-maven-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
