On 3/5/02 12:36 PM, "Zoran Vasiljevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The point is, I did some changes to the core server Again, I'm not a lawyer, but this looks troublesome. My reading of the licenses is that a product of yours which includes changes to the core server would constitute a derived work, and you must therefore make the source code for the entire system available. If you can repackage the system so that AOLserver plus some publicly available changes are used as a platform for the product (using only sockets and modules as interfaces), then you may be in better shape. As I understand it, if you use the AOLserver code in any way other than opening a socket to an AOLserver, or being loaded as a module by an AOLserver, then you've got a derived work. It's possible that you could start your own project, which would start with the AOLserver sources and include any changes you like, then make the new project available under a compatible license (this is basically what the AOLserver ArsDigita distribution does). Then you could use that platform as the basis for your product, and you may avoid license entanglements.
