Only if you distribute it. If you don't distribute it then its not enacted. So if you hack jboss up for your internal systems, you're not obligated. If you distribute those to the outside world, you're obligated.
However, take this advice for utter BS (and Juha's too, no offense). The best advice anyone can get regarding ANY software license is ask an attorney. As an experienced open source guy, the first thing I did when I started making any substantial amount of money was find an attorney. I can make a recommendation for one if you need one. -Andy On 8/21/03 6:21 AM, "Juha Lindfors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subclasses would fall under LGPL, as far as I can tell, if they're > distributed publically. > > -- Juha > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jim Brownfield wrote: > >> I believe subclassing would also be OK, so if you need to modify >> functionality, you might be able to extend a JBoss class without making your >> code opensource. >> >> -- >> Jim Brownfield >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Radical System Solutions, Inc. >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>> Behalf Of Bill Burke >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:42 AM >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] JBoss Licencing. >>> >>> >>> IANAL. Plugins are ok I think. But any modified JBoss >>> source code must be >>> licensed under LGPL and become itself, open source. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >>>> Venkatesh V >>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:19 AM >>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Subject: [JBoss-dev] JBoss Licencing. >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Can we add plugin's to JBoss & modify JBoss >>>> source code and use it for commercial purposes. >>>> >>>> How is the Licence for the JBoss. I have read the LGPL >>>> Licence, but i am not getting it clearly Plz send your >>>> comments. >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Venkatesh V >>>> >>>> __________________________________ >>>> Do you Yahoo!? >>>> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >>>> http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. >>>> Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available >>> today? From >>>> careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech >>> jobs from the >>>> best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> JBoss-Development mailing list >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. >>> Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From >>> careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech >>> jobs from the >>> best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> JBoss-Development mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. >> Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From >> careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the >> best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code4 >> _______________________________________________ >> JBoss-Development mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. > Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From > careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the > best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 > _______________________________________________ > JBoss-Development mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with everything espoused in the above email. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
