On 10 May 00, at 18:34, Mats Lofkvist wrote:
>
> If you distribute a package consisting of jboss and a set of
> proprietary beans, it should be even easier to argue that the GPL
> applies to all of it.
>
> So imho the text on the web site should be changed to clearly
> describe that jboss can _not_ be used with non-GPL'd beans.
>
Hi Mats,
You bring up some interesting issues, but this last one isn't a
close call. Your beans don't contain jBoss; jBoss contains your
beans. Proprietary applications can run on Linux. Proprietary
beans can run on jBoss. We need to make this absolutely clear to
everyone, so we don't scare off our users.
Hi users. You can run your non-GPL'd beans on jBoss. No matter
what.
This is absolutely consistent with the GPL, in my opinion. If
someone ever convinced us it wasn't, we would need to add a new
license (to the growing horde) that allowed for it. But again, I
strongly believe this isn't necessary.
An ejb server with a license so viral that it infected beans that were
run on it would be of limited value, even to the open source
community.
-Dan
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