On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 03:59 am, Henri Yandell wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
JBoss, like Tomcat, has its own version (typed in from the doc apparently).
I believe Sun's binaries are actually redistributable if you meet certain
terms (but you should have a lawyer read the license).
The initial commit (later tonight I hope) contains copies of javax.ejb and
javax.transaction Dain Sundstrom typed in.
Given that these have use for many other projects, it might be a good idea
to create a separate subproject, for example in jakarta-commons or commons
itself, just to hold free versions of these interface classes rather than
duplicating them everywhere.
Wholeheartedly +1.
As a secondary note, if we're able to distribute these under a BSD licence
happily it'll be a superb first milestone for Geronimo and win Gerry a lot
of friends and brand recognition.
Incidentally it'd be *awesome* if Sun would donate a BSD licensed version of the official golden copy of the J2EE APIs. I'm sure we'd all volunteer to maintain them & submit future patches from Sun.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
