Legal Risk of Using Tomcat

2007-09-07 Thread Irvine, Chuck R [EQ]
I hope no one thinks this thread is off topic There are many in the company I work for that would like to leverage open source software in general and and Tomcat in particular. However, our legal staff resists the idea because of perceived legal risks. I know that there are companies who

RE: Legal Risk of Using Tomcat

2007-09-07 Thread Irvine, Chuck R [EQ]
My guess was different: that they were concerned about using software that might later be claimed to be covered by somebody else's patent, like M$ has been threatening with Linux. If my guess is correct, then I seriously doubt there's anything to worry about there, because Tomcat

RE: Legal Risk of Using Tomcat

2007-09-07 Thread Irvine, Chuck R [EQ]
-Original Message- From: Len Popp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:57 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Legal Risk of Using Tomcat Do your lawyers have the same reluctance about proprietary software? If not, why not? There have been more