Hi!
During a short excursion to the EJBGen mailing list the subject of
license came up. I hadn't realized this before, but EJBDoclet and now
XDoclet has been licensed as GPL.
Preferably this should change, for a couple of reasons. In no particular
order they are as follows:
* If you keep up with the happenings in the OpenSource world you will
have heard about RMS' latest doings. IMHO he has now crossed the line
over to insanity. I don't trust him one second, and would not be
surprised if strange things happen with the wording of the GPL license
in the not-so-distant future. Thus, changing to another license would
allow us to avoid that insanity. It's a strange world these days, but
there you go. Adapt and survive.
* I have found many instances at my work where a XDoclet plugin would
make very much sense. However, many of those instances are very
Xpedio-specific and wouldn't make any sense elsewhere. Hence, there
wouldn't really be any point in putting those plugins into the main
XDoclet CVS and downloads. However, with the GPL license it has to be
that way, due to the virality thing. Another license (e.g. BSD or
Apache) would solve that nicely.
So, because of this I would like to propose the following:
a change of license for XDoclet from GPL to the BSD license, since it
solves both above points and since the BSD license is widely known.
Before we start the voting, I would like to hear comments from the other
developers and users of this project on this issue.
regards,
Rickard
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Rickard �berg
Software Development Specialist
xlurc - Xpedio Link�ping Ubiquitous Research Center
Author of "Mastering RMI"
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