yes I have already sent a private email to EVERY AUTHOR on the code, quite a
bunch of people have responded yet
thanks for the legal advice anyway Ken
marc
|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Jenks
|Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 4:50 PM
|To: jBoss Developer
|Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] READ PLEASE (AUTHORS)
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|At 02:20 PM 11/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
|>You understand that part of my motivation is to get this thing
|out the door
|>ASAP.
|>
|>IF YOU ARE ****AGAINST**** an LGPL change, SPEAK UP!!!!! SEND THE MAIL TO
|>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|>
|>your silence will not count!!!!!
|>
|>Given the noise we are making I am pretty sure we will reach everyone,
|>in 2 weeks it will be too late ....
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|Ya gotta be careful about this. Silence does NOT mean assent. You should
|probably require a positive statement from every author before you change
|to LGPL -- just to cover your legal butt. Yes, this is a pain, but
|it would
|be even more of a pain to have to go to court some day unable to
|prove that
|ALL of the software is legal.
|
|-- Ken Jenks, http://abiblion.com/
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| Tools for reading.
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