Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MockBase - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.


The license you chose qualifies your software as Free Software but it
uses software that is incompatible with the GNU GPL.

More exactly, mockobjects uses on gpl incompatible license.

We've chosen to host only software published under licenses
compatible with the GPL.  This is so that people can
combine files from the different projects hosted,
without licensing troubles.

If you're willing to switch to a GPL-compatible license, please
resubmit.

You can get a list of various licenses and comments about them
at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html.
That should help you to understand our position.

Rudy

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:49:20PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> John C Cahill <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: MockBase
> System name: mockbase
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Thesis:
> 
> This is a Java project that focuses on JDBC testing.
> 
> There exists a need to test database oriented code without necessarily
> involving a database.
> 
> Many database oriented software systems are hard to test because the state of 
> the database is often hard to reproduce in a testing environment. Usually, a 
> lot of time is spent writing scripts to put the database into a desired state 
> for testing.
> 
> One solution would be to have a Mock JDBC compliant database server which 
> uses Mock objects. Setup data for the application that is being tested could 
> then be scripted in a non-database oriented manner.
> 
> The project would be to build a Mock database server that would allow use of 
> Mock objects (see www.mockobjects.com/wiki), and allow the user of the Mock 
> database server to control data that is returned to the application that is 
> being tested via a scripting mechanism. The Mock database server would also 
> need to process SQL in a meaningful manner.
> 
> I basically view this project as being complimentary to the Mock objects 
> project, but separate in the sense that it "closes the loop" on JDBC testing.
> 
> PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I AM APPLYING FOR A NON-GNU PROJECT, BUT SINCE THIS 
> CAME UP ON MY PRIOR SUBMISSION, HERE IS MY JUSTIFICATION.
> 
> JUSTIFICATION - Why this project would run on a GNU (free) based system.
> 
> My initial response to the question 
> 
> "The key question here is to figure out if your project
> can run on a Free Software Java suite"
> 
> is to say that it would, provided that the Free Software Java Suite 
> implemented java.net, java.io and java.lang, which I believe the CLASSPATH 
> project provides.
> 
> My one outside dependency for this project is the original mockobjects 
> project (mockobjects.com/wiki). This project would also run on a free 
> software system, since it implements interfaces that Sun suggests, without 
> providing non-free implementations to those interfaces.
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> mockobjects.org/wiki
> 
> Other Comments:
> 
> 
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