On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Code under the ASF License is clearly OK. As is the IBM Public License > > (the pre-Jakarta BSF, for example) and the MPL (Rhino). The following > > public domain components are also approved: Antlr and Doug Lea's > > concurrency package. > > > Licenses clearly not conforming to the ASF's policies for distribution: > > LGPL, GPL, Sun's Binary Code License. > > Please also take a look at this: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/. > The authors intend and believe that the exception granted allows that code > so licensed "can be used to run free as well as proprietary applications and > applets." I have spoken with Nic Ferrier about this license exception. > They specifically intend for it to remove any viral implications related to > their binary distribution, and redistribution, and they believe that it does > so. > > In the specific case, this is related to the service provider example, so I > am only concerned about the permissible use of their binary jars.
+1 - if Classpath license is found to be compatible, this will solve a lot of problems, as they provide alternative implementation for JNDI and many other APIs. I think this particular one deserves special attention ! Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
