On 8/7/11 10:25 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Julien Vermillard<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]> wrote:
On 8/5/11 9:04 PM, Johnathan Meehan wrote:
Hi,
When I was finalising the initial implementation of DEFT-142 (Dynamic
Handlers), Mockito was added as a dependency. We had discussed using
this as a mocking framework prior to the move to Apache.
I'm mailing the group so that we are all aware, and to be sure that:
- it is acceptable to use the product, which is under an MIT licence.
MIT license is compatible with ASL 2.0. We can use libs under MIT license :
http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#category-a
Also it's just a test dependency.
In that case it does not really matter as long as we are not going to
distribute it with Deft releases.
To be clear : as soon as it's a compatible license, we can do whatever
we want (distribute it or not).
The fact that it's used for tests only, so they are not released, does
not matter too much. What is important is the type of library used : if
we were to use LGPL libs, for instance, then the simple fact of using
such libs would be an issue, simply because LGPL is contaminating, and
we should not let DEFT's users be contaminated without any notice.
I mention that as we *may* use LGPL licensed libs, but in that case, we
*have* to inform DEFT's users they have to explicitly download
themselves the LGPL lib. We can't simply add a dependency and let the
build system deal with it without asking the users if they are aware of
such a dependency.
--
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
