Chad Loder wrote:
> Hello. I would like to develop a custom servlet container
> to embed in my company's product. I would like to use the
> javax.* implementation included with Tomcat as the basis
> for the container (without using the entire Tomcat package).
>
> The Tomcat/Apache/J2EE/Sun combination has me a bit unsure
> regarding the licensing of this technology.
>
> According strictly to the Apache Software License at the
> top of javax/servlet/Servlet.java, we should be allowed to
> compile the entire javax.* package (and all subpackages),
> put it in something like servlet.jar, develop a custom Servlet
> container which directly extends that code, and distribute
> it with our application, providing we include the required blurb
> about Apache software.
>
> Is anyone out there doing something similar? Does this sound
> reasonable?
>
Sorry for the late response ... I was travelling to London for ApacheCon
and
then involved in meetings.
Please feel free to use any of the software on the jakarta.apache.org
site, as
long as you conform to the requirements of the Apache Software License.
For
your purposes, that specifically includes both Tomcat and the
implementation of
the servlet API classes found in the "jakarta-servletapi" CVS module.
Although
Sun continues to own the servlet and JSP specification itself, these
implementation classes were contributed to Apache along with the
original
Tomcat code. This is also the source for the servlet.jar file that
ships with
Tomcat itself.
In addition, if you make any modifications to Tomcat that would be of
interest
to the general community, it would be appropriate to consider whether
you would
wish to contribute those changes back.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad Loder
Craig McClanahan
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