Raises the question of whether anyone has needed the improvements/bugfixes/whatever in the later GPL versions, and whether we should consider forking the old version.
Hen On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Java Service Wrapper is being used (and sometimes redistributed) by > many of our Java projects (ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, Geronimo, OFBiz, Tomcat). > It was formerly available under an MIT/BSD style license, as can be seen > in the 3.2.3 version at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wrapper/ > > More recent versions of the product are currently under dual GPLv2 > and commercial licensing. > > http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/licenseOverview.html > > And yet no mention of its license is found in our documentation. > > http://activemq.apache.org/java-service-wrapper.html > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/How+to+Run+OFBiz+as+Windows+Service+with+Java+Service+Wrapper > http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/wrapper.html > http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyWindowsService > > and the only pages we have that refer to the old version are in Geronimo > > > http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC11/configuring-geronimo-as-a-windows-service.html > > http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC20/configuring-geronimo-as-a-windows-service.html > > If your project is currently distributing or telling users to make use of > the Java Service Wrapper, please be sure that we only use the old licensed > version, that our documentation points to the old site, and that when we do > point folks to wrapper.tanukisoftware.org (which we should do because some > users are not allergic to GPLv2) we should also point out that the newer > versions are under different licenses (GPLv2/commercial). > > ....Roy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
