hello,
is it up to a particular ObjectWeb software project team to decide whether they want to re-release their software under a new or dual license or will the ObjectWeb group work on a strategy on how it would be possible to 'enabling its (ASF's) projects to use some OW code'?
i for instance am interested in the JORAM JMS server [1] because that project implements the JMS v1.1 API and because it now ships with that nifty kJORAM J2ME library which enables people not to rely on the commercial iBuss//Mobile software [2].
just out of curiosity - why was the JORAM project moved from a CPL license to LGPL?
regards
daniel s. haischt --
references:
[1]: http://joram.objectweb.org/ [2]: http://www.softwired.ch/products/mobile/mobile.html
Jeff Mesnil wrote:
(given the subject, I crosspost to ObjectWeb architecture mailing list)
Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
James Strachan wrote:
Just to be clear - we cannot touch any LGPL code at Apache so that rules out ASM for now.
yes, that was my distinct understanding!
i just wanted to explain that i do not think that the ObjectWeb group will release ASM under a BSD kinda license.
There have been some talks within ObjectWeb community to see how we (the OW community) can collaborate more with Apache and Geronimo.
License is one of the main issues what we have to solve but I do believe that we can find a good solution for both Apache and ObjectWeb. After all, lots of OW projects already use some Apache code. Why not thank Apache back by enabling its projects to use some OW code?
ObjectWeb and Apache have some complementary projects and I personally think that both community can benefit from better cooperation. ASM would be a good start.
So the licensing issue is open but OW community is carefully considering it.
jeff
