Just to chime in on Peter's email, I hit the same stumbling block as well, and had to go hunt it down. Any chance the class could be rolled into Avro directly?
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Peter Cameron wrote: > I've only just discovered the dependancy of Avro upon the thoughtworks > Paranamer classes. We use reflection at runtime with a schema and encountered > the usual ClassNotFoundException for Paranamer after I'd been rationalising > our codebase -- which included the removal of the avro-tools-1.6.3 JAR. The > tools JAR contains the Paranamer classes which I was unaware of. We operate > in a very lightweight environment so the 10Mb tools JAR is not suitable for > us to deploy. > > I went looking for the Paranamer JAR and eventually found version 2.5. > However, this is BSD licensed. BSD is not suitable for us. Only Apache 2.0. > > What are our options? I'm mystified that the avro license does not mention > Paranamer at all. Can I take the classes from the tools JAR and construct my > own Paranamer JAR and still satisfy licensing? > > cheers, > Peter > ----------------------------------------------------- Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com Co-Author: Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server available from http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are marked as such.
