On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthias Wessendorf schrieb: >> >> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone I wanted to start a legal discussion here regarding the >>> status of Mojarra and our codebase. >>> >>> As far as I understood it is following. >>> The mojarra license prevents us from using their code, while they can use >>> ours, this is fine with me the Apache license is more liberal. >> >> +1 >> (OT *and* a side-info: OpenJDK is using Apache Harmony code :-) ) >> >>> The Mojarra and Apache license however do not prevent that we can have an >>> occasional look into the mojarra codebase to check things out which >>> are not 100% clearly defined, so that we are in sync there, or to prevent >>> external patches being applied which might have mojarra code inside (we >>> had >>> that once in the past with comments copy pasted from the spec or mojarra) >>> >>> Am I right or wrong? >> >> not sure on the legal side, but I find it *is* critical to take a look >> at such a code >> base. >> > > This is the question, not looking against the other codebase might introduce > incompatibilities or errors might be overlooked, > just like I pointed out in the example before, > or even worse, external patches could go into the codebase which come > straight from the mojarra codebase!
isn't the behavior *clear* defined in the spec ? If so, go the route; If not, ask the EG on the why ;-) -Matthias > > > As far as I can see the way the bsd and linux guys handle it is that linux > freely takes BSD code why the BSD guys dont have a problem looking at the > linux codebase, but they never ever would copy any code from the linux side. > > > > Werner > > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
