On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:23:06 -0700, Freeman Jackson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is not possible with GPL, which is why we use it: any enhancement
>> of our stuff goes back to the community. Period.
>>
>
>GPL can't police behind Global 500 firewalls. It's a nice idea in theory but in
>practice there is too much theft of intellectual property to go open source in
>"all" cases.
Ah, yes, I should have been explicit: any enhancement to code that is
*redistributed* has to be OpenSource. Hence, you can take GPL-code,
modify it, and use it internally for whatever purpose.
But I'm ok with that. We *do* want people to use our code as much as
possible. Why would that be a problem? I don't see this kind of "theft"
as a problem.
>Are you saying that in the Long-Run you have an advantage because jBoss can
>interoperate with other GPL related software? This is a great idea if it's
>true. Can you tell me more?
I don't understand your question. Can you expand on what the possible
edge of jBoss from a GPL-perspective would be. How does it matter
whether the other software is GPL? We integrate with both GPL and
non-GPL software.
>> 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.
>
>Ok How?
By having people like me telling you about it, and having good software
like jBoss available as OpenSource, and having businesses using
OpenSource software compete and beat non-OS companies. And having happy
users telling everyone they know how great that OpenSource app server
jBoss is. That's how.
/Rickard
--
Rickard �berg
@home: +46 13 177937
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.telkel.com
http://www.jboss.org
http://www.dreambean.com
===========================================================================
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
