Hi Julien,
I contacted all of the contributors on the list and they are all happy for a
license change, particularly under the LGPL v3. If you are happy to process
this change through the configuration etc, this would be great :)
Cheers
Jevon
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Julien HENRY <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jevon,
>
> Here is the list of JWebUnit contributors:
> http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/team-list.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Julien
>
>
>
> ----- Message d'origine ----
> > De : Jevon Wright <[email protected]>
> > À : JWebUnit Development mail list <
> [email protected]>
> > Envoyé le : Mardi, 15 Septembre 2009, 6h52mn 58s
> > Objet : Re: [JWebUnit-development] Re : JWebUnit licence
> >
> > Hi Julien,
> >
> > Do you have the contact details of other committers for JWebUnit?
> >
> > I've spent a while doing some research into this... though of course I
> > am still not a lawyer. Both Apache and LGPL sound fine. But I think
> > Apache allows for redistribution and modification without source or
> > credit.
> >
> > A statement on the LGPL states inheritance is the same as linking
> > within LGPL [1], so as long as the end-user can replace the LGPL
> > library, I don't think subclasses (test cases) would have to also be
> > under LGPL. A work which modifies JWebUnit source code has to still
> > still reproduce these changes under LGPL if the changes are
> > distributed.
> >
> > Also, it seems that if you distribute an LGPL JAR, you also have to
> > distribute the JAR's source code. Alternatively, the end-user can
> > download and install the JAR themselves.
> >
> > Of course none of this is necessary if the test cases or modifications
> > aren't distributed.
> >
> > Jevon
> >
> > [1]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Julien HENRY wrote:
> > > Hi Jevon,
> > >
> > > Initially, JWebUnit licence was BSD based and I changed it to GPL after
> the
> > > major rewrite I did 3 years ago. This was done to avoid someone doing
> > > modification of JWebUnit without redistribution.
> > >
> > > My purpose was not to limit JWebUnit usage. According to me a TestCase
> > > extending JWebUnit base test class is not a derivative work but fall
> under
> > > the "classpath link". AFAIK Java is a complicate topic because GPL was
> > > initially designed for C-like languages (with the notion of code link).
> > >
> > > One of the previous project leader (Martijn Dashort) pointed out that
> my
> > > licence change was not totally "clean" as I concede I didn't rewrite
> 100% of
> > > the code base. Therefore, JWebUnit is not such a critical project and
> there
> > > were not so much contributors to ask. So we can discuss what would be
> the
> > > ideal licence and try to do the switch.
> > >
> > > HtmlUnit project has much more contributors and they managed to do the
> > > switch to Apache licence. I don't think they asked all their past
> > > contributors for a written agreement...
> > >
> > > As of today my preference would be an Apache licence (very similar to
> BSD
> > > AFAIK) or perhaps LGPL. I also heard about "classpath exception" but I
> don't
> > > remember if it applies to GPL.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Julien
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > De : Jevon Wright
> > > À : JWebUnit Development mail list
> > >
> > > Envoyé le : Mercredi, 9 Septembre 2009, 2h09mn 38s
> > > Objet : [JWebUnit-development] JWebUnit licence
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I know this would require legal advice, but since JWebUnit is licenced
> > > under the GPL, does this mean that it cannot be used with Eclipse
> > > projects licenced under EPL, as test cases would be a derivative work
> > > of JWebUnit? Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Jevon
> > >
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