WOW!!!!!!!!
disregard this...
I was typing it and "ctl S" too soon.
My what a day....
I will resend this with the correct license
marc
marc fleury wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Well this is one for all the lists and if some of you are on all of them
> then you will get this message quite a bit.
>
> So we took into account your remarks and modified the license.
> The modification is a "preface" just like Linux has.
>
> It addresses 2 key points.
> 1- It spells precisely the scope of the license and its "virality". As
> a "NOTE" we specifically say that "normal usage" does not imply GPL
> propagation. In the case of J2EE based system, the scope of "normal
> usage" is even simpler to grasp as it is limited to the J2EE APIs. In
> clear beans and applications that use the jBoss products through the
> J2EE API fall under the normal usage category and not the "derivative
> products" which are infected by the GPL.
> The "import rule" is still valid in the sense that if you import jboss
> code then you are infected by the GPL if you don't import jboss code but
> J2EE code then you are not infected. However the "use" definition is a
> bit larger as it covers the case of reflexive calls (that bypass the
> import) on jBoss. So that folks can't create a "technical loophole" by
> using the reflection package. However the "rule of import" is still
> valid and should guide your development on top of GPL code in jBoss.
>
> 2- It includes a copyright notice. We are not Linus Torvalds, so we
> copyright for the "authors" of the code. I.e. the list of authors in
> the AUTHORS file.
>
> In this fashion, the GPL is completely non-equivoque.
>
> Alright onto the text:
>
> <prepend>
> NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use container
> services through J2EE (TM) defined standard calls - this is merely
> considered normal use of the container, and does *not* fall under the
> heading of "derived work".
> </prepend>
>
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