| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Donald
| Sent: 29 October 2000 01:22
| To: Java Apache Framework
| Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; marc fleury; jBoss Developer;
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update
|
|
| >The only solution for you is to choose a NON GPL license for
| JBoss such as
| >MPL, BSD or APL. Period. You have no other choice unless you want to
| >completely loose control of JBoss and have all of your hard
| excellent work
| >completely ignored.
|
| Thats one of the pities of GPL - it protects the code not the people ;(
Actually it protects the code *for* the community that produced the code.
| >I'm not saying that I'm going to do it (I'm definitely not going to do it
| >cause I don't like EJB anyway), but while I was at ApacheCon, I have
| >certainly heard enough other people talking about doing it.
|
| There is a few other oss solutions out there. I know of two
| groups who were
| put off by jBoss'es license and searched for other OSS ejb servers. Only a
| few are about but
You can't please ALL of the people ALL of the time...
| >People are VERY unhappy with the fact that JBoss is GPL and will
| be looking
| >for other solutions to support.
|
| now thats an understatement ;)
|
| And no one has even invoked the wrath of RMS yet ;) Once RMS finds out
| about the project misusing the GPL he will start advocating all the GNU
| peopls stay away from it. His opinions while sometimes a little kafuie are
| generally listened to. See some of the other projects he has attacked and
| you will see a list of projects that have lost a lot of mind
| share compared
| to what they should have (ie KDE, TCL are 2 good examples). Or
| even worse -
| you may get slashdotted ;)
Why exactly are these people angry. Who are these people and why haven't
they taken the common sense approach of voicing their concerns on the jBoss
list?.
I say if they can't be bothered to furnish a reasoned argument to this list
about their GPL/LGPL issues, they aren't worth delibrating licencing changes
over!!
Cheers!,
Micheal
PS Re: RMS - I think it was fair in KDE's case hence their recent
change of license. I don't know enough about the TCL case.
