| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Stevens
| Sent: 28 October 2000 22:07
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jBoss Developer;
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update
|
|
| on 10/27/2000 10:10 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > | but at the same time, you have a problem with the GPL being
| > |viral so you give exceptions for people to use JBoss. Instead, what you
| > |should do is probably be using the MPL license which will
| solve your needs
| > |without having to constantly grant exceptions to people.
| >
| > ???
| >
| > what 'exceptions'? we never granted 'exceptions'. Please explain.
|
| The exceptions that you are granting is by allowing people who write EJB's
| for your server to allow them to not require them to be GPL'd as
| well. That
| is clearly an exception to the license. This is very similar to what Linus
| has done with Linux and binary kernel modules.
|
| > |It is funny to me how you say that you are integrating our code which I
| > |think is great, but the real issue is that we can't integrate YOUR code
| > |because you choose to use the GPL license.
| >
| > why not? what exactly prevents you from integrating our work?
| Please be
| > explicit,
| >
| > let's not work from hearsay and "impressions" of the GPL, the
| GPL is very
| > explicit.
|
| I write code for the ASF under an APL 1.1 license. The GPL and the APL 1.1
| are not compatible licenses and it is "illegal" for me to include GPL code
| within an ASF project. Period. Thus, I cannot take JBoss and
| include it with
| the Turbine Developer Kit because you have things under a GPL license.
Are you talking about code reuse literally as in source code reuse or using
the finished product?.
Cheers!,
Micheal
