Same with Aapche OODT. We use it soley in the test <scope> to ensure our IMAP 
handling works.

--k

On 2014-07-14, at 1:21 PM, Robert Kanter <rkan...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> Thanks for letting us know Steve.
> In Oozie, it's only included as a test scope dependency and used only for
> unit tests, so I think we're good here.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Kevan Miller <kevan.mil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Steve. For clarity:
>> 
>> This message announces a license switch for Greenmail --
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/greenmail/mailman/message/58953/
>> However, some/most/all of the src license headers are still labeled as
>> LGPL. There would also be general questions about the license switch --
>> were all necessary copyrights properly held to make this license switch?
>> And subsequent to the switch were all changes/contributions made under
>> ALv2?
>> 
>> Depending on the outcome of these questions, you may or may not want to
>> treat the greenmail dependency as LGPL. Assuming it is held to be LGPL,
>> then a question of how the dependency is used? Bundling an LGPL dependency
>> is bad. Direct source linkage to LGPL, likewise. Simple build / test maven
>> dependency would be OK from an ASF perspective...
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Steve Rowe <sar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, my name is Steve Rowe, and I'm a member of the Apache Lucene PMC.
>>> 
>>> We recently discovered that the "greenmail" Java library, which declares
>>> its license as ASLv2 in its POM and elsewhere, has LGPL license headers
>> in
>>> its source code files.  In response the Lucene project reverted a recent
>>> commit containing this depedency.
>>> 
>>> I conducted a survey of current Apache releases and found that four
>> Apache
>>> projects include source code that links to the "greenmail" library:
>>> Syncope, OODT, Oozie and Geronimo.  Additionally, Axis2 has a Maven POM
>>> that includes a "greenmail" dependency, though I couldn't find any
>> current
>>> releases containing this dependency.  Details are posted on <
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-206>; I would appreciate
>> your
>>> project's involvement.
>>> 
>>> An issue was filed with the greenmail project on Sourceforge earlier this
>>> year asking for clarification <
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/greenmail/bugs/8/>,
>>> but there has been no response on that issue, or any other issue, for
>> that
>>> matter - the project may be dead, as it has seen no activity for some
>> time.
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> 
>> 

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