On 28/07/2010 03:38, Bill Barker wrote: > This is probably cruelty against dead horses, but shouldn't the > download target be conditional as well? Since checkstyle is LGPL > licensed, I really don't think that we should be installing it by > default for anyone that wants to build Tomcat.
That works for me. > Being an extremist on > this issue, I would actually prefer that we remove the download-validate > target. This would mean that anyone that wants to use it has to have > installed it already, and so have accepted the LGPL license. I for one, > expect that when I download an Apache product, that it will only install > compatibly licensed software. At least not without warning me otherwise. > > This is a -0: vent. There is nothing wrong from a licensing stand point > on how we are using it. I added a comment in build.properties just above the option you need to override to enable validation. Hopefully that is a reasonable compromise. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
