On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:34:47PM -0700, Henri Yandell wrote: > 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.
Tomcat uses procrun from daemon (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/) not the Java Service Wrapper. As we have most of the features in ASF, shouldn't we try to use daemon instead the Java Service Wrapper? Cheers Jean-Frederic > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
