Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

[Rickard �berg]

Hi!

marc fleury wrote:
> Actually we already discussed this if you remember and we voted for such a
> license.
> 
> HOWEVER be aware that it is in no way a "exception" or "modification" it is
> just a "NOTICE" (outside the terms and conditions) that says applications
> and 3rd party modules developed independently of jboss are not CMD'ed work
> of jboss and do not fall under the GPL.

AFAICT that is not enough. GPL virality would still be a problem.

> We already voted yes for that notice (exactly like LInux's) and we will
> update all license ref in source files for jboss2.0 final

Sure, but Peter's and Jon's arguments still hold. Those notices aren't
enough. They still don't adress that /lib/ext JAR's need to be GPL, and
it still won't make it possible create a J2EE server such as OpenJoda,
with jBoss in it.

/Rickard

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