On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 23:46, Bill Burke wrote: > > - What formal guarantees are there that my contributions will not be > > used to create a for-profit proprietary product? > > You're protected as much as LGPL. You'll have to ask a lawyer. I hate > lawyers and I hate licenses. I believe in brutal capitalism dude. Survival > of the fittest. Spare me your commie crap.
LGPL protects you only as far as the original author is not interested in relicensing. If JBoss group owns, lets say, 80% of the code then the JBoss group can most certainly bundle a for-pay product that is a LGPL/proprietary hybrid. I've seen this approach tried in the past by various groups, Kaffe among them. It leads to forks. As to capitalist dudes and commie crap, I'm not sure where you are headed with that. > > - What actions are underway to migrate JBoss' ownership from Marc to an > > organization with formal, published by-laws that is managed in an open > > and participatory manner? > > Who on this list has the time, energy, and/or money to support/run this type > of organization? There are umbrella organizations already in place to manage this sort of thing. Software in the Public Interest manages Debian's assets. There is the Apache Software Foundation, but the LGPL is a problem there. There is even the Free Software Foundation for that matter. I will personally assist in the process of solving the problem if desired. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
