some more fyi
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From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 13 October 2000 2:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ant gui tool
>Peter Donald wrote:
>>
>> At 09:11 12/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> >>Yes, huge problems. We couldn't ship it with Ant and you'd violate
the
>> >>GPL if you shipped Ant with your stuff.
>> >
>> >Then how can jBoss (which is GPL) use the Tomcat server which is
APL?
>>
>> Illegallly. What they are doing is illegal. Every developer that
>> contributes to that project is potentially able to be put behind
bars. In
>> my country (Australia) they can quite easily be put behind bars for
10
>> years and I assume the same in US. They are currently revising
licensing
>> terms I believe.
>
>Don't get off your bike... I don't believe jBoss is using any Tomcat
>code. Last I upgraded my jBoss, they were not even packaging Tomcat
with
>it. Off course, jBoss.org does have some directions on how to better
>integrate Tomcat and jBoss, but that's all.
jBoss is doing a lot of things illegally. At least one of the developers
recognizes this and has pushed to have licensing modified. Laundry list
include all JMX, JMS, apache stuff (ie cocoon/tomcat etc) + any other
non-GPL compatable library.
>>From what I can tell, GPL doesn't mind you linking with code licensed
in
>other ways.
Well .... no. That is the whole point of the GPL - to force you to make
everything either GPL or GPL compatable. So what you can tell is plain
wrong and goes against the philosophy of GPL.
>As long as you don't use GPL source code in a product you
>plan to distribute without the full source code, it's fine.
Nope - wrong again. It has to be GPL compatable if you distribute it -
which APL code is not.
>The library version of the GPL spells all this out.
now the Library GPL is different again - but you do know that right ???
>I sense a little paranoia on this thread......
I sense a lack of knowledge ...
Cheers,
Pete
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