ok, thanks! guess it was a rather dumb question, got confused b/c was not very sure if we could include libraries that we are not using at runtime. I'll document it on www.jspwiki.org in case anyone is curious
regards, jp 2008/9/3 Andrew Jaquith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That is true... That said, there is nothing stopping us from using another > tool (gpl/lgpl) if it is already available at runtime... > > > On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the Apache policy is quite clear: LGPL and GPL cannot be >> included in ASF projects. >> >> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html >> >> /Janne >> >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:38:15AM +0200, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> recently found apiviz <http://code.google.com/p/apiviz/>, a doclet which >>> adds UML class diagrams to javadocs, at package and class levels. It can >>> be >>> integrated easely with <javadoc>'s Ant task, and generated javadocs look >>> very nice (example< >>> http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/netty/freezone/api/3.0/index.html >>> >) >>> so, I thought it may be can included (got it running inside jspwiki's >>> build.xml last night). I'm only concerned about it's being lgpl licensed, >>> so >>> I'm not very sure if we're allowed to use it. Also, this doclet relies on >>> graphviz <http://www.graphviz.org> for diagram generation, which is CPL >>> licensed. >>> >>> So, the questions are: first, do you think this it is worth having? if >>> graphviz isn't found, then the doclet falls back to standard javadoc >>> generation, so if you don't want to use it you're not forced to. And >>> second, >>> how does the license of this type of external libraries affect JSPWiki >>> (i.e.: when can we use them)?: in this case we are using a (possibly) >>> license-conflicting library to generate javadocs, but apiviz is not part >>> of >>> them, it is used to *generate* them. Don't know if I'm explaining >>> clearly.. >>> I'm also thinking of cobertura right know, which could be another nicety >>> to >>> add, but it's GPL licensed. >>> >>> regards, >>> jp >>> >>
