----- Original Message ----
> From: Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, February 16, 2010 11:28:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Approve the release of apache-esme-incubating-1.0
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Richard Hirsch wrote:
> > ...The candidate can be found at:
> > http://people.apache.org/~rhirsch/esme/
>
> Unfortunately I'm -1 on the release, I have a few issues including a
> GPL dependency.
>
> 1) jwebunit dependency is GPL
> The server module depends on
>
> net.sourceforge.jwebunit:jwebunit-htmlunit-plugin:jar:1.4.1:test
>
> which according to http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/license.html is GPL.
Well isn't jwebunit a test framework, in which case, (and assuming there
are no dependencies on it in the production-ready codebase of esme) do
we really care that it's GPL or not? (Note an exception to the (L)GPL
policy was recently granted for build dependencies, so I think it's might
be possible to extend that to test deps.)
