Rickard �berg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> parikshit wrote:
> > I could not understand the meaning of this sentence.
> > <statement>
> > Predatory productization of jBoss is made impossible by the use
> > of the GPL license
> > </statement>
> > What do you mean by GPL License?
>
>
> This is not possible with GPL, which is why we use it: any enhancement
> of our stuff goes back to the community. Period.
>
GPL can't police behind Global 500 firewalls. It's a nice idea in theory but in
practice there is too much theft of intellectual property to go open source in
"all" cases.
> That said, there are many ways to include functionality in jBoss without
> getting "infected" by GPL. Since we are completely based on JMX, you can
> do JMX-compliant modules and plug them in cleanly, hence not strictly
> building upon jBoss. We are even going to do many integrations like
> this, for example with the popular O/R tool CocoBase: CocoBase will not
> be OpenSource, but the glue between it and jBoss will be. The glue
> extends jBoss and CocoBase, but CocoBase itself is completely separate
> from jBoss.
>
Are you saying that in the Long-Run you have an advantage because jBoss can
interoperate with other GPL related software? This is a great idea if it's
true. Can you tell me more?
> It is interesting to see these discussions, as the awareness of
> OpenSource, and what it *really* means and how it works, seems to be not
> very well-known.
> That will change.
Ok How?
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