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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ean
> Schuessler
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:10 AM
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> Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] time is up, where is adam heath?
>
>
> 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 really don't care who makes money off of what I do. That's just me
though. To each his own
> I've seen this approach tried in the past by
> various groups, Kaffe among them. It leads to forks.
Now you're talking some sense and like you've had some experience in this
area.
> As to capitalist
> dudes and commie crap, I'm not sure where you are headed with that.
>
Just messin' with ya. You do sound like a commie though....
> > > - 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
Apache Software Foundation. You mean IBM? Yeah, right...JBoss should be
under that Sphere of influence. Sure. Get real...
> is even the Free Software Foundation for that matter. I will personally
> assist in the process of solving the problem if desired.
>
Now I'm not messin' with ya. The FSF is a bunch of commies.
I've been around here since February. This organization moves and moves
fast. Why would it want to be tied down to these slow bureaucratic orgs?
Bill
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