At 05:26 30/10/00 +0200, you wrote:
>If you want to claim J2EE compatibility. Which we don't. However, the J2EE
>platform is clearly defined and available to anyone who surfs to Sun's
>website.
right.
>I don't see how the GPL would require us to provide a
>compatible implementations of the Sun J2EE platform.
The problem is that you are not compatable with J2EE platform. If you were
then there may be an argument for this. However I expect you want to
implement EJB 2.0 and keep using the different extentions you are using
now, right ? Not all of them are compatable (hell tomcat is not compatable
with j2ee ;]) so you would have to drop such attempts if you wanted to
claim you were programming to that platform.
>We're linking
>against the platform which GPL does allow, but we don't intend to provide
>a J2EE compatible implementation.
I guess my point is your not linking against the platform - you are linking
against a j2se with auxilliary extentions.
>I see these as two separate issues altogether. If you write EJB's, you
>link against the platform. You don't have to be a J2EE licensee to do
>that.
If you write EJBs you are linking against the EJB standard extention. If
you are linking against the j2ee platform then you are linking against a
particular version of EJB standard version plus particular versions of a
whole lot of other standard extentions. You don't do this (and you said it
is not an aim above) so you can not claim to be linking against j2ee ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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