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jhalterman / typetools

Tools for working with generic types
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Release under dual license #36

Open ChristianSchwarz opened 7 years ago

ChristianSchwarz commented 7 years ago

Is it possible to release type-tools under MIT-license too? The mockito project (MIT-license) wan't to use typetools to resolve typeparamters from lambda expressions. Actually it is not desired to depend on an additional libs, so the only solution seems to be a releaase under dual license so mockito can copy/paste the required class into the mockito code base. Maybe know an other solution?

jhalterman commented 7 years ago

@ChristianSchwarz I don't mind switching to an MIT license if Mockito decides to use TypeTools. We do have an outstanding issue around resolving lambdas in Java 9, but there seems to be a good workaround.

As for including TypeTools in Mockito, if not as a library, you may just want to use something like the Maven shade plugin to repackage the TypeTools source (just one class) into Mockito as part of its build. I have other libraries that do this sort of thing - example here. It's worth noting though that lambda resolution depends on sun.reflect.ConstantPool, so it will only work on runtimes where that is present, such as OpenJDK, Oracle, etc.