Checklist: New 3rd party library

Owned by Ivan Senic
Last updated: May 06, 2016 by Stefan Siegl
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If you need to add the new 3rd party library dependency to the inspectIT, please follow the specified checklist in order to correctly deal with licensing:

  1. Check if the license of the library is compatible with our current license (Which licenses we can use). 
    1. If license is not compatible, please find an alternative.

  2. Update the THIRDPARTYLICENSE.txt file by adding the information about the library:

    1. Add the library name to the section of the belonging license, current sections are:
      1. Apache v2.0
      2. Apache v1.1
      3. New BSD
      4. LGPL v3.0
      5. EPL v1.0
      6. MIT
      7. CDDL
      8. EDL v1.0
      9. MPL v2.0
      10. Public domain

    2. If copyright information is specified in the jar, git repository or web-site of the library add above the license start it in the form:

      Copyright (c) yyyy, who (library-name)

  3. Add the new library and its details to the Used licenses in inspectIT