RE: [tools-pmc] Object Teams proposal

["Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the JACKS question, if it is a development-time or build-time tool, then
its likely not an issue.

If there is any need to distribute it with EPL code, that would be a real
problem.

> > You say, "All software of the Object Teams software has been developed
> > using the following infrastructure: ... A specific test suite for
compiler and
> > runtime based on the JACKS framework". From a quick glance, JACKS
appears
> > to be GPL, and its web page states that even the test cases that use it
are
> > GPL. I believe GPL is incompatible with EPL, so that can't come over to
> > Eclipse.(Right?)
> 
> You're very quick at this, I only noticed this conflict after submitting
> our proposal. I see several options:
>  - Since JACKS was developed by the IBM jikes team, perhaps we could
> negotiate EPL compatible licencing (cf. the JDT/Core uses the jikes parser
> generator).
>  - I believe as the copyright holder of the test cases we could still
> create standalone test cases (not using JACKS) and provide them under the
EPL,
> no?
>    The connection to JACKS is very loose, so this is doable (with some
> effort).
>  - Only in the worst case we would maintain these tests outside Eclipse
and
>    only publish the test results on the Eclipse servers.