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by wbillingsley 5125 days ago
Any project that builds using Maven does that all the time!

(And really it's not simply a question of "non-free" -- there are plenty of open source licenses that are incompatible with the GPL. Is this technically a workaround for the incompatibility between Apache v2 and GPL v2?)

But a non-free villain could bootstrap a build using Maven without even publishing their source at all -- just keep a Maven repository with their binary jars and and a pom.xml that specifies dependencies on a whole bunch of GPL libraries.

Is there a provision against it? I hope so, but I haven't found it yet.

http://wbillingsley.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/does-oracle-v-go...