Jung , Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> >Then how can jBoss (which is GPL) use the Tomcat server which is
>> APL?
>
>APL is non-infective and open, so you can put a GPL wrapper/interface around
>without any problem, right?
Wrong. It is the *GPL* that specifically prohibits this.
GPL code can only "link" with other GPL libraries or libraries defined
as "Operating Systems components".
Even using reflection with a hard coded class name is apparently defined
as linking - the code has to have no pre-knowledge of exactly which
class it will be using.
Read Section 3 of the GPL for the full details, and re-read the two
Apache messages cross-posted to this list.
>>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.
<SNIP>
>Nothing hinders you to get a redestribution license for that stuff
>(similar the commercial mapping products that interfaces are built for, ect)
>if you want to ship your final product.
LOL. You should try it some time ;-)
<SNIP>
>
>Again, what is the problem of developing/compiling/shipping GPL source code
>against any commercial/APL/other-licensed stuff ....
The GPL prohibits it.
In fact, if you read the postings to the Apache mailing lists, the
verdict is that it is currently impossible to license *any* Java program
as GPL because by definition they link to / use non-GPL libraries in the
form of the standard JDK class libraries, standard extension packages,
and/or optional extension package.
You would have to apply to the Free Software Federation to ask that
specific Java libraries be officially reclassified as "Operating System
Components". They are currently not, and there is no guarantee they
ever will be.
:-(
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