Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE9E910CD2 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4225 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jan 2015 17:47:00 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 4070 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jan 2015 17:47:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact legal-discuss-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: Reply-To: legal-discuss@apache.org List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list legal-discuss@apache.org Received: (qmail 4055 invoked by uid 99); 6 Jan 2015 17:46:59 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:46:59 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [213.133.104.83] (HELO www83.your-server.de) (213.133.104.83) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:46:34 +0000 Received: from [195.145.25.4] (helo=[192.168.103.73]) by www83.your-server.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8YB9-0006cf-1B; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:44:27 +0100 Message-ID: <54AC1EF5.6010207@swe-blog.net> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:44:21 +0100 From: "Oliver B. Fischer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: legal-discuss@apache.org Subject: Re: Using GPL licensed software in the build infrastructure References: <54AB85F0.9000205@swe-blog.net> <54AB9926.4080902@apache.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authenticated-Sender: o.b.fischer@swe-blog.net X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.98.4/19887/Tue Jan 6 12:50:48 2015) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Hi, thank you for your answers. Bye, Oliver Am 06.01.15 um 14:13 schrieb sebb: > Please note that [1] has been superseded by [2] > > [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > > > On 6 January 2015 at 08:13, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 06/01/2015 06:51, Oliver B. Fischer wrote: >>> Hi, I read the thrid Third-Party Licensing Policy [1] but I am not sure >>> if we can use GPL and LGPL software as FindBugs and Checkstyle or >>> similar tools in the build chain of an ASF project. Actually I think we >>> can use it since we use these tools only during the build. But I am not >>> sure. >>> >>> I would be glad for an answer by someone of you. >> Yes this is fine. We've done this in Tomcat for years. What we have done >> is make the use of these tools optional. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscribe@apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-help@apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscribe@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-help@apache.org > -- N Oliver B. Fischer A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany P +49 30 44793251 M +49 178 7903538 E o.b.fischer@swe-blog.net S oliver.b.fischer J oliver.b.fischer@jabber.org X http://xing.to/obf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscribe@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-help@apache.org