2) Regarding OSS licensing... do we have to be wary of the licenses of dependencies (yui, packtag, etc) to make sure their licenses are compatible? Is there any JBoss contributor documentation on this?

It's up to you (the contributor) to ensure whatever you use is compatible with the LGPL license.

YUI is BSD, so I believe that is compatible with LGPL. Not sure about packtag.

-Dan

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