Hi!
parikshit wrote:
> I could not understand the meaning of this sentence.
> <statement>
> Predatory productization of jBoss is made impossible by the use
> of the GPL license
> </statement>
> What do you mean by GPL License?
GPL is the General Public License as defined at gnu.org. We use that,
with the additional clarification that applications using jBoss are not
affected by GPL, just as apps running on Linux do not have to be GPL.
Many OpenSource licences allow you to use the source or binary any way
you want, including the possibility to enhance it without making the
additions generally available. This is a good way to kill an OpenSource
project: do "the OpenSource thing" for awhile, and when you feel that
you have "enough", then close it and make extra code and sell it as a
product (i.e. what I termed predatory productization).
This is not possible with GPL, which is why we use it: any enhancement
of our stuff goes back to the community. Period.
That said, there are many ways to include functionality in jBoss without
getting "infected" by GPL. Since we are completely based on JMX, you can
do JMX-compliant modules and plug them in cleanly, hence not strictly
building upon jBoss. We are even going to do many integrations like
this, for example with the popular O/R tool CocoBase: CocoBase will not
be OpenSource, but the glue between it and jBoss will be. The glue
extends jBoss and CocoBase, but CocoBase itself is completely separate
from jBoss.
It is interesting to see these discussions, as the awareness of
OpenSource, and what it *really* means and how it works, seems to be not
very well-known.
That will change.
/Rickard
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