Hi, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Martinez, Mel - 1004 - MITLL <m.marti...@ll.mit.edu> wrote: > The interests Adam alluded to extend beyond just the direct interests of the > ASF. Adding any new third party code or package is often a very, very big > deal for those of us who depend on ASF components such as PDFBox.
Note that a testing tool is by definition not included in the jar artifacts used downstream, so their licensing impact is minimal. The only problem is if the license of the testing tool would virally affect the license of the test code within PDFBox, but that won't be the case at least with the MIT-licensed Mockito. > However the disadvantages of including yet-another-package in the > distribution outweigh the benefits, imho. I disagree based on the above point. Better testing tools help improve quality and their impact on licensing is minimal. So, FWIW, +1 to using a mock tool in unit tests. BR, Jukka Zitting
