So the Brett proposal looks fine too. I can mark the svnjava provider as optionnal and explain why on the scm site and explain how to use it. -- Olivier
2009/3/19 Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>: > From my experience asking anyone about anything legal has never been > resolved in any timely manner. > > Whether grand fathered or anything else. Discussions have gone on for a very > long time. > > Olivier if you want to release it then I would just taking it to mojo and > then there are no issues. > > On 19-Mar-09, at 5:12 AM, Brett Porter wrote: > >> >> On 19/03/2009, at 7:29 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >>> On 19-Mar-09, at 1:25 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Ok. It's was not really clear for me. >>>> >> >> There is precedent - we grandfathered in Checkstyle which is LGPL as it is >> just a dependency of a plugin, which we don't actually distribute. >> >> The general talk - though not confirmed - is that optional dependencies >> that the user must obtain themselves could be ok. There isn't a legal >> problem with the combination, but rather a policy one that you don't >> distribute something that is essentially useless without a dependency of a >> stronger license. >> >> We should ask, but I personally think this is ok, as long as: >> - it is not made the default provider >> - instructions on the site about how to use it spell out that it requires >> the dependency and that it is not under the AL >> - we don't bundle and distribute >> >>> >>> Technically we are not redistributing anything and we can ask the board >>> for clarification because in the strictest sense we do not redistribute. But >>> I think folks here would interpret a dependency in your POM as being >>> equivalent. >> >> No need to ask the board, you can file a request here: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL >> >> Cheers, >> Brett >> >> -- >> Brett Porter >> [email protected] >> http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > >
