On 4/9/07, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey, I was just looking around at Checkstyle and noticed that it is licensed as LGPL. Is this legit? I was under the impression that Apache soft ware could not directly use any LGPL or GPL licenses software... which the maven-checkstyle-plugin is clearly doing.
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I personally have no love for GPL/LGPL,
why such hate ? :)
but I was a little surprised when I noticed that Checkstyle is LGPL and that the maven-checkstyle- plugin is importing classes from that package and referening them directly... which I thought was a big no-no for ASF projects. Anyone know what's up?
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/Using_LGPL'd_code So basically no. I doubt the checkstyle code will be relicensed. So the plugin should be rewritten or moved to another site (and the repositories cleaned up. That should make for a fun exercise). :( J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
