Craig L Russell wrote:
Hi Les,
On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
Ah, interesting. I didn't realize it wasn't Apache licensed - sorry.
But as Kalle said, we wouldn't be distributing it. This is the same
condition that we had with the Google Syntax Highlighter[1] usage
question that was raised (and approved) by the Incubator a while ago.
As far as every developer getting it and installing it - that's
handled automatically by Maven since it would be declared in the
pom.xml file - it is in the M2 central repo to be pulled as soon as
the build needs it (surely just listing an LGPL file name in a pom
does not constitute 'distributing', right?). Is that good enough?
Yes. As long as we never distribute Logback (including checking it
into the shiro repository) it's ok to put it into the pom.xml as a
test dependency.
No. And this was discussed lenghtly on [email protected].
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-63
The user *must* use a flag if he wants to use logback during the build.
Ie, mvn -Pwith-logback, for instance, or mvn -Dwith-logback (you will
have to define a specific profile for that).
Have a look at
http://mina.apache.org/developer-guide.html#DeveloperGuide-BuildingMINA,
we are allowing users to install a LGPL component and had to do that.
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
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