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Posted to dev@cocoon.apache.org by Torsten Curdt <tc...@vafer.org> on 2004/03/12 20:26:10 UTC
Re: Using Maven (or something similar) for dependencies? (Was: Co
coon's Rhino+continuations fork)
> Lets take this to the extreme. Pretend that Rhino was a GPL license. Sure
> I could download Rhino and get a running Cocoon. But I could never sell a
> product based on Cocoon unless I make my customers also download Rhino (and
> I'm not sure even that would be legal). Since so many parts of Cocoon want
> to leverage Flow these days this would make the situation impossible.
Well, since you put it to the extreme - you got a point
> And although Rhino isn't GPL, from what I read of the Mozilla license it
> also has the requirement that anything that it is packaged with must also be
> under the Mozilla license, which makes it just as bad as the GPL from a
> commercial standpoint.
I guess the problem is that "packaging with" is a bit blurry.
What are we talking about? What a about a RH CD which
comes with Mozilla, which is under MPL. Does all packages
on the CD have to be under MPL?
I personally don't think downloading-on-demand is
really that bad at all. (If done nicely!) But let's wait
what the board comes up with. It may or may not expose
this discussion being a waste of time ;)
--
Torsten