the ASM license has been changed from LGPL to BSD Eric
James Strachan wrote: > >Agreed - great news! > >I've been using ASM a lot lately (on Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org) >and it rocks for generating bytecode dynamically. We can definitely use >ASM for any bytecode generation stuff we need. > >On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 11:01 pm, Jan Bartel wrote: > >>Great news! I use JOTM for JettyPlus's transaction manager, so I'm very >>pleased to see it will be available for Geronimo too. >> >>At least initially, we should be able to work with JOTM as a 3rd party >>jar served from ibiblio, and create a Geronimo environment where the >>actual transaction manager is a pluggable component. >> >>cheers, >>Jan >> >> >>Jean-Bernard Stefani wrote: >>>Dear Brian and Greg, >>>We (ObjectWeb) owe you a response on possible changes of licenses for >>>ObjectWeb components, to further the possibility for collaboration between >>>Apache and ObjectWeb. >>>I am happy to report that both the ObjectWeb Board and the ObjectWeb >>>College of Architects have agreed that, for ObjectWeb components that are >>>to be developed collaboratively with the Apache Software Foundation, a >>>change of license from LGPL to BSD is encouraged. >>>Ultimately, of course, the final responsibility for effecting such a change >>>lies with the copyright holders of the source code under consideration. >>>For the two cases at hand, namely the JOTM transaction engine and the ASM >>>bytecode manipulator, I am happy to report that the respective copyright >>>holders are ready to make this change, should the ASF require it. >>>As we discussed in previous messages, I believe such a policy meets the >>>requirements of the ASF for incorporating ObjectWeb components in its code >>>base. >>>Best regards, >>>Jean-Bernard
