[technology-pmc] Java profiling and "Selling out to the Man"

[Francois Chouinard <fchouinard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi "Technology PMC",

My name is Francois Chouinard and I work on the Eclipse integration of LTTng under the Linux Tools project.

We recently had a demo of a Java profiler (YourKit) and were moderately (actually: quite) impressed.

It
turns out that they have this program where active Open Source
developers can obtain a free license to use their product. In return,
they ask that a little HTML snippet be displayed somewhere on the
project page. Here's the snippet:

"
YourKit is kindly supporting open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler.
YourKit,
LLC is the creator of innovative and intelligent tools for profiling
Java and .NET applications. Take a look at YourKit's leading software
products:
<a href="" href="http://www.yourkit.com/java/profiler/index.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.yourkit.com/java/profiler/index.jsp">

YourKit Java Profiler</a> and <a href="" href="http://www.yourkit.com/.net/profiler/index.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.yourkit.com/.net/profiler/index.jsp">YourKit .NET Profiler</a>.
"

If I recall well, the Eclipse foundation used to frown over this kind of practice (if not downright forbid it) but I don't know where we stand now on this issue.

Personnally, I would hesitate to "deface" our project page with commercial (i.e. non-open) material but it seems to be a good tool and I have some pressure from performance-freak, TPTP-disgusted, co-contributors to get it :-)

So, I am weighing my options here and asking if it would infringe some rule (Linux Tools, Technology, Eclipse, ...) to add this HTML snippet to the LTTng project page.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Francois