Hi!
Dan OConnor wrote:
> This is the statement I don't understand: "without the blessing
> there is no platform." Is there a regulated list of blessers, e.g. on
> the web pages at www.gnu.org? Why does Sun get to decide what
> is a "platform" under a license written by GNU for code copyrighted
> by jBoss authors?
Because they own the platform, in this case J2EE. In short, if we are
not a J2EE licensee then we are not using the platform but a bunch of
J2SE extensions. Big difference in legal terms.
> Mind you, I'm not saying your toaster can be a platform. I'm saying
> that a bunch of software with the same structure, the same
> function, the same interfaces, the same methods, the same
> everything but name and version matching is, as far as a legal
> interpretation would be concerned, the SAME THING. If one is a
> platform the other is a platform. Come on--this part is just common
> sense.
Afraid not. If we claim that jBoss uses the J2EE platform we are
violating Sun trademarks and are no better than Microsoft in that
regard.
> Seriously, something gets to be a platform because it IS a
> platform, not because it has been "blessed."
In the general case, perhaps. In the case of J2EE, definitely not.
/Rickard
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