Hi,
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:18:14PM -0400, marc fleury wrote:
> > |I really think JBoss as a serious technology about to fly. For the sake of
> > |my own business, and for my interest as a journalist I'm up for documenting
> >
> > yes so we put up a website and the technology so free loaders like you can
> > come along and "for the sake of their business" not contribute a bit to the
> > project and draw the traffic to themselves.
>
> Is there some unspoken rule that JBoss shouldn't be used by commercial
> actors?
Don't know if Marc thinks so, but I DO NOT.
Some of my early JBoss contributions were
under GPL, as that was the license at that
time. I accepted the change to LGPL.
More recent contributions are under LGPL, as
this is the current license of JBoss.
(I haven't been contributing that much, but
I have contributed some.)
By contributing under LGPL, I specifically say
that my work can be used under the terms of
that license. That includes the right of
commercial actors to redistribute for a fee.
That is very important for me: If the license
did not allow free (as in freedom, not free
beer) redistribution, I would never have done
any work on JBoss.
When I do Open Source programming, I do not
receive payment, but that does not mean that
anybody can do whatever they want with my
work. I retain copyright, and it is always
under some license that _requires_ free
redistribution, even from derivative works.
Best Regards,
Ole Husgaard.
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