Andrew McIntyre wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 2:45 PM, Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@sun.com> wrote:
>> I just downloaded junit 4.4. It comes with a BSD license. I notice that
>> we don't check junit.jar into our codeline however. Is the BSD license
>> incompatible with Apache 2.0? I am not a lawyer, but it seems that we
>> would satisfy the conditions of the junit license if we included a
>> copyright notice and disclaimer in our NOTICE file.
>>
>> Other opinions?
>
> If we don't redistribute it in any of our release artifacts,
If it's checked into svn then be definition it is in our release
artifacts since our source release is a snapshot of the source tree.
> I don't
> believe there's a need to add any notice. There are plenty of examples
> of other projects that have checked junit.jar into the repository, and
> do not give notice in their NOTICES file. See, e.g.:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/java/trunk/tools/
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lenya/trunk/lib/
Not sure that's correct, the proposed policy indicates an entry in the
NOTICE file is required.
> and notice in Xerces's case that they include the license along the jar.
There is a proposed apache policy on 3rd party licences at:
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html
(there may be a newer version)
Dan.
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