Hi all,
I've found it VERY interesting to read and learn about licensing in the past
several days. In my everlasting naivety, I considered this peripheral to
what's really going on - getting the open-source job done. Now I'm all the
wiser, and at someone else's expense ;)
Anyways, I would like to continue reading about this, but I have a problem
with all of the replies to Jon and the like. I noticed that he posted the
relevant snippet and link, to RMS's license page where he himself says that
the GPL and APL are incompatible. To me, and my gawd I'm the furthest from
an expert on this stuff than anyone,
game, set, and match.
I wonder if anyone close to the jBoss project would reply with the reason(s)
the GPL license was chosen? Was "protect young code" a supposition? I am
rather interested to hear Marc's response to all of this and what his plans
are for the licensing considering the APL and GPL are incompatible. Was the
APL ever considered? Perhaps if the APL got the same supposed job done, a
switch should be considered?
Hopefully things turn out well for everyone. Good luck!
- r
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: October 30, 2000 5:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: jboss on tomcat update
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>
> > I have heard that if all the developers / contributors agree it is
> > possible to get JBoss to release under both APL and GPL, or vice versa.
> >
> > Why can't this be explored?
> >
> > --
> > Nicolaus Bauman
> > Software Engineer
> > Simplexity Systems
>
> This has been explored by the members@ASF during the whole
> WebMacro debacle
> and so far it has been shot down pretty strongly from the ASF
> side...ie: dual
> license of ASF code.
>
> I'm not quite sure where we are at with the distribution of dual licensed
> non-asf code from apache.org. What I mean by this is having a
> distribution of
> Tomcat (single ASF license) + JBoss (dual licensed) available for download
> from apache.org. My gut feeling is that this is not ok either.
>
> -jon
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