> Hi! > > Joe Shevland wrote: > > But any modifications/enhancements they make to the jBoss > source code *must* be > > made available to the jBoss community under the GPL, is that correct? > > No. The GPL says "thou shall make any source of any code thou > redistributes available". But since an ASP doesn't really redistribute > anything (and this applies to consultant work as well) the GPL does not > apply. An ASP would legally be able to do pretty much whatever with > jBoss and not have to redistribute anything. This is my understanding of > it at least. > > Telkel could, technically, do the same thing. The only thing is that we > have internally agreed that this is a no-no (apart from stuff that would > only be relevant for Telkel as an ASP), and that we would be shooting > ourselves in the familiar foot should we, for example, create clustering > code that is not given back to jBoss the organization. I am pretty ready for competition. As Aaron pointed out even though we can't really celebrate the ASP competitor, we are certainly glad that the J2EE ASP field crystalizes around jboss... we build jboss for datacentre usage and others see that. We set the rules and we need to play by the rules. More power to them if they piggy back of our work, that is how it goes. marc > > /Rickard > > -- > Rickard �berg > > @home: +46 13 177937 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.telkel.com > http://www.jboss.org > http://www.dreambean.com > >
