Re: Jakarta Documentation

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 18:38, Ted Husted wrote: > acoliver wrote: > > I consider the statement "you just need to know where to look for" to be a > > symptom of improper information organization. Such things should be *easy* > > to find. Initiation into our community(ies?) has a higher barrier tha

Re: Back to JakartaOne planning...

2002-03-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 3/5/02 10:40 PM, "Jon Scott Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I suggest that a few people step up to volunteer to make JakartaOne happen > because it isn't going to happen all by itself. :-) Maybe even setup another > mailing list to do planning on so that people who are inte

Back to JakartaOne planning...

2002-03-05 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Hey all, I suggest that a few people step up to volunteer to make JakartaOne happen because it isn't going to happen all by itself. :-) Maybe even setup another mailing list to do planning on so that people who are interested in planning can join it and discuss things. If people are going to spea

Jakarta Documentation

2002-03-05 Thread Ted Husted
acoliver wrote: > I consider the statement "you just need to know where to look for" to be a > symptom of improper information organization. Such things should be *easy* > to find. Initiation into our community(ies?) has a higher barrier than I > prefer, you can never have too much or too well o

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Jeff Turner
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:39:20PM +, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of > > GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apache to > > get all software covered by

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Jeff, Thanks for the link to this article. I found it to be well researched, well written and instructive. The "quodque pro quo" twist is rather elegant, perhaps too elegant. From the comments on this list, I think that most programmers tend to ignore licensing considerations. Does boring lawye

Re: StudioZ (was: Re: JakartaOne?)

2002-03-05 Thread James Duncan Davidson
On 3/4/02 11:36 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yea right ! You liar :-) Sounds too cool to be true :-) Of course this > should be an all night session. Definitely an all-nighter. :) .:..:.:.:::.:::...:..:::.::.::...:::x180:james duncan davidson -- To unsubs

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Jeff" == Jeff Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Here's a starting resource: Jeff> http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//policy/2001/12/12/transition.html this link produced a (ouch) 500 response from oreilly. I was able to find another link that worked: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub

Re: Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread acoliver
>On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:09:23 Pier Fumagalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. >"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A lot of "what we think and why" is on the web already... It's in the mail >archives, in the presentations to different conferences, and so on... The >word is out there,

Re: Licensing issues of distributing catalina tomcat with GPL software

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Hammant
Ruslan >yes, i understand, what using xerces or xalan is ok this way, >but i have a different situation, > >i am including tomcat not as library but as host environment (my app - web >application - is executing on top of it) > Ahh, you have a WAR file webapp that is GPLed and imports javax.servle

Re: Licensing issues of distributing catalina tomcat with GPL software

2002-03-05 Thread Ruslan
- Original Message - From: "Paul Hammant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: Re: Licensing issues of distributing catalina tomcat with GPL software > Ruslan, > > Basically you will be in breach of the GPL if

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread dirkx
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > "Danny Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And anyway aren't licence issues beyond the remit of Jakarta? > > Practically anyone has a word on the matter, as members are listening, but > the "legal" decision (and legal obligations, bindings, restri

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Pier Fumagalli
"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:39, Pier Fumagalli wrote: >> "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of >>> GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apac

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Pier Fumagalli
"Danny Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And anyway aren't licence issues beyond the remit of Jakarta? Practically anyone has a word on the matter, as members are listening, but the "legal" decision (and legal obligations, bindings, restrictions, yadayadayada) are a "privilege" of members of t

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:39, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of > > GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apache to > > get all software covered by the APL. We

RE: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Danny Angus
Pier wrote: > That's why I wouldn't be "that" comfortable with a "Why GPL sucks" page... > Political propaganda? Looks really like it... And IMO that's not > what we're > here to do... We're here to write software... +1 IMO The licence is there to empower us, its not a "product", its a by-produc

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread javajoe2975
Maybe it would be appropriate to direct questioners to http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html? This O'Reilly page provides a brief overview of a few open source models and offers a book for people with more in-depth questions. Mike George - Original Message - From:

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Pier Fumagalli
"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of > GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apache to > get all software covered by the APL. We're programmers, not lawyers. That's why I wouldn't be "that

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Send in a patch or write one it seems like you've researched the issue beyond *it sucks*. On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 06:16, Jeff Turner wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a page somewhere at apache.org, explaining why anyone would want to > switch from GPL to ASL? The GNU.org site paints a very inspiring pict

ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Jeff Turner
Hi, Is there a page somewhere at apache.org, explaining why anyone would want to switch from GPL to ASL? The GNU.org site paints a very inspiring picture of a world of Free Software. It would be nice if there was an Apache equivalent somewhere explaining the Apache philosophy. This could be used

Re: Licensing issues of distributing catalina tomcat with GPL software

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Hammant
Ruslan, Basically you will be in breach of the GPL if you directly import Apache software. If you can use Apache software via an approved API like SAX then you are fine. GPL considers the SAX API as compatible and does not care if it is Xerces being instantiated by the factory. Assuming yo