On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 07:21 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
Claim : both files contain "AsIs", "Transient" and "Marhsalled", which are believed to be JBoss-specific payloads, and thus could only be there via copying. Further, the Invocation file is central to the JBoss architecture, and thus copying could have great impact throughout Geronimo.
(I forgot this - the JBoss lawyer's letter just calls it out in text, not as a specific exhibit)
Comment : The last part, about architectural similarity, is a non-issue, I believe. You can't copyright the idea, just the expression of the idea.
Ok - Bill Burke is back on TSS going on about this, so I'll do the same for this that I did when analyzing Exhibit C.
I'm staring at this, and now have to go back and read the letter from the lawyers, because the code for
org.apache.geronimo.core.service.Invocation is a riff on java.util.Map, namely :
public interface Invocation { Object get(InvocationKey key);
void put(InvocationKey key, Object value);
}Where the jboss version is a fairly rich concrete class. I'm not going to waste bits posting it, but here's the link :
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/jboss/jboss/src/main/org/jboss/ invocation/Invocation.java?rev=1.19&view=markup
So this can't be what they are upset about.
Can someone explain what JBoss is talking about?
-- Geir Magnusson Jr 203-247-1713(m) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
