[TIP] does licensing of test tools matter?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Wed Aug 5 07:38:53 PDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:23 AM, holger krekel<holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:31 +0200, holger krekel wrote:
>> Hi TIP,
>>
>> i was wondering the other day - is licensing of test libs and
>> tools and issue for anyone here?
>
> let me re-phrase to have a more concise question: did anyone
> actually base their past choice of a testing tool on its license?

Yes

I chose not to use a Javascript Doctest implementation because it was
GPL.  I would be inclined to avoid a testing tool that was GPL.

Jim

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