Yes the current discussion on legal-discuss is wrt wss4j, but the question for beehive was more general: are there any patents that have been explicitly granted for the use of Beehive? For example, have BEA issued any "licenses" to Apache with respect to stuff that Beehive implements?
Regards, Simon On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:32 -0700, Kenneth Tam wrote: > Beehive doesn't currently have any implementations of the WS-* > standards, including WS-Security -- the intent was to at some point > look to other Apache projects that were implementing those standards > (I don't subscribe to legal-discuss, but I presume the discussion in > question is wrt WSS4J?). > > On 7/14/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 7/12/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear Incubator PMC, > > > > > > > > I believe Beehive is ready to function as a standalone PMC. Please > > > see > > > > the latest status at: > > > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/beehive.html > > > > Could someone please provide information on any patents known to apply > > to this project? > > > > There has been discussion on legal-discuss@apache.org regarding the > > situation for WS-Security where IBM has granted patent license for the > > Apache project but not to anyone who modifies the code (modifiers of the > > code must apply for a patent license separately). > > > > > > The "legal issues" section of the beehive status page does not address > > patent issues. It would be good to confirm that this situation does not > > apply to Beehive. > > > > Sorry if this has already been discussed... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Simon > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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]