Hi Jevon,
OK for LGPL v3. I'll do the change asap. I think I simply have to change the
pom, the LICENCE.TXT and maybe header of some files. Perhaps it is also written
in Sourceforge in project settings.
++
Julien
>
>De : Jevon Wright <[email protected]>
>À : JWebUnit Development mail list <[email protected]>
>Envoyé le : Ven 9 avril 2010, 2 h 19 min 41 s
>Objet : Re: [JWebUnit-development] Re : Re : JWebUnit licence
>
>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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