I sent an email to legal-discuss this morning, so hopefully we can get a definitive resolution this week.
Chris On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about raising this problem on legal-discuss and see what it gives ? > Chris, do you want to take a stab at it ? > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Chris Custine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yes sorry, JBoss is LGPL. We do actually import JBoss classes in > JBIService > > and JBIDeployer but all LGPL dependencies are marked as provided in the > > pom.xml. So when we ship binaries, they are free from LGPL code, and > when a > > developer builds on their own machine, they are downloading the JBoss > jars > > from maven central themselves so at least we aren't shipping any LGPL > code. > > > > Obviously we will want to run this through legal-discuss if we get that > far, > > but I wanted to see if anyone was interested in the first place. > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2008 12:52 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As David said, I'd be really happy to bring it back in our main svn > repo > > > if > > > possible. > > > The main problem is the legal aspects. > > > One thing is that IIRC (but it should be easy to confirm) is that we > don't > > > actually > > > have any dependenies on JBoss code, because the SAR we build does not > > > require any API or so (only the SAR descriptor). > > > In such a case, I think we would be ok to import it. > > > > > > And to answer David's question, JBoss is LGPL. > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2008 5:18 AM, Chris Custine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > > > Guillaume Nodet > > > ------------------------ > > > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Guillaume Nodet > ------------------------ > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >
