At 05:31 30/10/00 -0800, you wrote:
>In my view the FSF people are taking an overly aggressive stance to try and
>trigger the virality of the GPL where I wouldn't have thought it applies.
This
>radical interpretation of the GPL makes it virtually unusable for any
endeavor
>where you might want to use the software commercially, or in any way combined
>with non-GPL'ed software. I also wonder if this view would be upheld by the
>courts.
I really think this would be upheld by courts as license was specifically
designed with that in purpose and a lot of smart people had input into it.
GPL is one way to go "free" and yes it is near impossible to combine it
with non-GPL software by design. Many consider this a good thing - others
don't it is a matter of choice. ;)
>The long and the short of it seems to be that the GPL is a hopelessly complex
>license that ensures that the software licensed under it's conditions will be
>engulfed in a legal quagmire anytime it is combined with other, non-GPL'ed
>software. A most unfortunate conclusion, in my opinion.
Well the whole point of GPL is to stop it being linked with non-GPL code ;)
so yer your right.
>1.) change the jBoss license to some BSD-style license or at least dual
>license jBoss.
dual license not an option unless you remove all standard extentions jars
(like ejb.jar for instance) which would make jBoss next to useless.
>2.) remove all of the Tomcat integration and force people to run Tomcat and
>jBoss in separate VM's.
see above.
>3.) blatantly ignore the legal issues and proceed forward with the
>integration.
you are already doing that ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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