[fpc-other] FPCUnit, DUnit2 and JUnit licenses question

[Jonas Maebe]

On 21 Jul 2009, at 11:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Or maybe CPL is incompatible with (L)GPL and none of the 3 products  
> may actually be bundled with FPC?

The CPL is not compatible with the (L)GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#CommonPublicLicense10

So unless the authors of both JUnit and DUnit gave permission to also  
distribute their code under the modified LGPL, fpcunit cannot be  
distributed under that license.

In general, packages should indeed be licensed under the modified LGPL  
for them to be distributed with FPC, but maybe an exception could be  
made for a unit testing framework. After all, you seldom distribute  
unit tests, so the license is of minor importance. But if fpcunit  
cannot be licensed under the modified LGPL, then the license headers  
in its source code definitely have to be changed.


Jonas

(CC'ing Michael, since he's not subscribed to fpc-other; Michael,  
Graeme's original message can be found here: http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-other/2009-July/000300.html 
  )