Yeah, you're right. In my mind, I tend to lump all those licenses together because I don't have any intentions on making a commercial version of Apache or even putting it on a CD.
Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Tim Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:34 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Why won't anyone help me out?? One nit...Apache is most definitely not licensed under the GPL, but the Apache Software License, which can be read here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/LICENSE Notably, it allows you to redistribute modified versions without source code, unlike the GPL. -- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 Phone 202-463-4860 ext. 258 / Fax 202-463-4863 > -----Original Message----- > From: Goehring, Chuck Mr., RCI - San Diego > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:20 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Why won't anyone help me out?? > > > Steve, > > Apache, Tomcat and a huge array of other products are > so-called "open-source". Usually this means they are > licensed under the GPL (as Apache is). These products come > in runtime and source downloads and have instructions on > installation, compiling source etc. A web site called > sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/) houses a repository of > these projects. It is worth perusing these projects and > looking at what (and how)they have done their code, jars etc. > Many are just like commercial products but are usually free > for most usages. They aren't tutorials on programming or web > development, they are products. The jars are packaged > products. If you emulate what they did and can get their > stuff to run under Tomcat, you will see how your stuff should > be done, in order to run in the same environment. For > example, if you loot for a class file in a jar and go find > the corresponding source file, you will see how they > specified their package declaration and where the class file > ended up in the jar that they deploy. You can open the jar in winzip. > > Chuck > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Burrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:07 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Why won't anyone help me out?? > > > Hi Chuck, I just now read your little post to me, and I > apologize for my "sheer stupidity", but would u please "humor > me" and tell me what exactly you mean by an "open source > product"??! Am I to assume that the jar files in the product > will demonstrate to me the "fine art" of packaging up class > files? Thank you. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
