plainly ignorant,
I am tired of working from "hearsay" on the definition of GPL
No comments
marc
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|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville Burnell
|Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:43 PM
|To: jBoss
|Subject: [jBoss-User] Licensing Round2
|
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|some more fyi
|
|-----Original Message-----
|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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