[TIP] does licensing of test tools matter?

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Aug 5 15:02:17 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:23 +0200, holger krekel 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?  
> 
> My impression so far was: nobody did.  And i haven't heart anything 
> to the contrary yet.  Makes sense, i guess, from a practical point 
> of view as (so far) running a test tool is separated from the 
> actual distribution and deployment of the code under test.  

Well, I started a near flamewar with a couple of things a short while
ago, because they were under GPL. 

See the archive for details :)

-Rob
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