The last time I checked, ICE offers dual licenses. Buying a commercial license from them should be an option if your company really depends on ICE+C#.
Вск, 25 Июл 2010, Alex Rufon писал(а): > Thanks for the info. > > The C#+ICE is a new library (a client DLL) and a Web Service. I definitely > would fall into GPL because I have to statically link into their libraries. > > Because of this I've been looking more into what middleware are available. > There are a lot of other solutions and I even stumbled upon Apache ActiveMQ > which looks like having a bit more relaxed license. > > Right now I don't know yet on to continue the project. One thing for sure is > that I'm bothered with JDB using sockets to implement a server. > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Raul Miller [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:27 PM > To: Chat forum > Subject: Re: [Jchat] GPL [WAS: RE: [Jprogramming] donate] > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Alex Rufon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Of course, I'll GPL the C#+ICE library (complying with the GPL > > requirement) but would J interacting with the C#+ICE library > > violate the GPL? Isn't this similar to J using GTK+/regular > > expressions/readline? > > > > What do you guys think? > > Copyright is a bit strange -- it is about ownership of > conceptual works of art and different communities > have different concepts about the sorts of works of > art they deal with. > > That said: > > If ICE and J are clearly in separate works then the problem > is similar to using Internet Explorer to talk with a GPL'd > web server (I think Roxen would be an example of a > GPL'd web server). > > However, if J is a modification to ICE then the copyright for > ICE comes into play. > > Meanwhile, GPL restrictions only come into play when you > distribute the GPL'd software. So if you are not distributing > modified versions of ICE you should be ok. > > -- > Raul -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
