Hi,
Aaron Mulder wrote:
>
> Code that's licensed under the GPL but imports code licensed under
> the APL is treading the line of what might reasonably be considered to be
> a "derived work" in the eyes of the GPL (thus requiring that the APL code
> be GPLd and breaking the Tomcat license). So I would strongly urge that
> any Tomcat integration code at all goes in a "contrib" module - if core
> jBoss classes import Tomcat code, then I don't think there's any way this
> will be legal!
I've seen this a few times lately, but it is a misunderstanding of
what the GPL license says.
Consider a simple GPLed "Hello, world.." program in C. If compiled
on Solaris it will link to the Solaris system libraries.
Would that make the Solaris system libraries GPL? I think not.
If the Solaris system libraries would have to be under GPL it
would be because the Solaris system libraries are derived from
the "Hello, world.." program. But that is _not_ the case.
Best Regards,
Ole Husgaard
