I have noticed several questions recently regarding the JBoss deployer code that is at codehaus and after looking into the code a bit I am wondering if anyone is interested in moving that to Apache under the platforms module similar to the geronimo plugins. One of the main reasons that the deployer is not working with 3.2 or 3.3 is that the dependencies (specifically exclusions of transient deps from servicemix-core) are specific to each ServiceMix release and the current JBoss deployer code is specific to 3.1.2. I have fixed the issues locally to make things work with 3.2 and 3.3, but while I am at it I wanted to see if moving it to the ServiceMix SVN was something worth exploring.
I looked into the whole GPL issue and since we are only compiling against GPL code that is available on maven central repo and not shipping or packaging any GPL code, I believe there are no issues with licensing. This is just an idea, so any thoughts? Thanks, Chris
