At 06:35 30/10/00 +0200, you wrote:
>At 14:47 30.10.2000 +1100, you wrote:
>>I guess my point is your not linking against the platform - you are linking
>>against a j2se with auxilliary extentions.
>
>But J2SE is whatever Sun says it is. Doesn't the same magic wand apply?
>Today J2SE includes JNDI. Yesterday it didnt. So what makes J2SE different
>from pure GPL point of view from J2EE?
There is little difference between J2EE and J2SE from a GPL point of view -
the difference is in the specifics. With J2EE you have fixed versions and
fixed capabilities and must not violate them (like tomcat does with it's
newer servlet version).
So you could claim that you were aiming for that platform however you would
have to change all your libraries to conform and you would have to remove
all non-conforment parts. Then you would have to get a very expensive
license from SUN to say that jBoss is a J2EE product. After that you would
be fine.
However I believe you want to support later servlet versions (via tomcat),
later EJB version (2.0) etc and these do not conform to J2EE and thus your
product is not even given the opportunity to pay for expensive license to
allow you to distribute it ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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