Charles Wise wrote:
>
> I've sent very few emails to this list. I've gone through the code on my
> own and wrote many test cases. This list is not very kind to people asking
> newbie questions and most of mine have been very newbie.
>
> Please keep in mind that my target audience is probably different from
> yours. I'm in an IT shop that has contractors sliding in and out on various
> projects. Simple, widely used frameworks are the most I can enforce.
> WebSphere 4.0's admin web app is even written in Struts. I can't tell you
> how much it annoys me not to pick Turbine. I REALLY like the templating
> system. I despise the edit-compile-was there an error?-what layer was the
> error in?-edit-compile JSP system.
So use Velocity in Struts. :)
[SNIP]
>
> As to the open issue, any code I write that is derivative of Struts or
> Turbine is GPL'd -
Er, no. That would be the Apache Software License. Entirely different
beasties.
> as far as I'm aware that's the only legal way to do it.
> Will it ever see the light of day outside company walls? Probably not but
> somebody could walk off with it if they wanted to. I'm balancing my needs
> against the open source communities needs. I want to use somebody else's
> code whenever possible. I want to contribute back whenever possible.
Again - what Messrs Mundie, Ballmer and Gates have been saying is not
factually accurate. All open source doesn't require you to surrender
anything you don't want to. No Apache source is licensed under the GPL.
geir
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Developing for the web? See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
You have a genius for suggesting things I've come a cropper with!
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