Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert wrote:
>
> > '[...] a "work based on the Program" means either the Program
> > or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say,
> > a work containing the Program or a portion of it [...]'
The package, the final runtime product with beans and jBoss, "contains"
the container and the beans, your work and our work.
But stricly speaking *your* work is not based on *our* work, it does not
even contain it, you never "import" GPL code.
Your work does not contain our program. The work being discussed, your
code, need not be GPL.
That is a question that is fully settled in the Linux world, the package
"Oracle 8i on Linux" contains Linux (GPL) and Oracle 8i (non-GPL).
marc
> >
> > phrase in the GPL. Beans are running in the same executable as
> > the server; how can you argue that this would not fall under
> > the 'containing' part above when things like dynamically loaded
> > C libraries and the bison stub code are commonly agreed on being
> > 'contained', including by those who wrote the GPL?
>
> Agreed. But, we know for a fact the application on Linux fall outside of
> this. Yes the rely on common runtime libraries (Oracle on Linux for
> example) but they are independent of the GPL bits. EJB is a component spec,
> and the components are independent pieces which utilize services suplied by
> a container, much like applications are utilizing the services of a GPL'ed
> OS (Linux).
>
> When you ship code, you must be able to supply the source of jboss, and ANY
> derivation of jboss. You do not need to ship the source for your code.
>
> Thor HW
>
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