At 01:13 31/10/00 -0000, you wrote:
>I thought this kind of fight only happened between lawyers and in a
>courthouse, you�ve been giving the wrong idea of what open source
>development should really be: cooperation and sharing, I always had this
>naive idea of open source developers being the crusaders of the 21th century
>fighting against the enemy called bad unstandarized commercial software but
>in the end i find them fighting each other because of stupid license called
>GPL or APL or BSD or whatsoever.
It only occurs seriously when one group tries to do something illegal all
the other "wars" are just posturing much like vi vs emacs, gnuemacs vs
xemacs, linux vs bsd.
>Unfortunately this licenses are necessary evil . But I�ve seen really some
>low arguments here and I remember someone saying:
>
>"some people at apachecon are unhappy about the way jboss is being licensed
>and are actually thinking about taking the code????"
Umm - well no apache project would ever do that. I don't know where you got
the information but it is surely disinformation if you are trying to imply
an apache project would do such a thing. The PMC are very strict about
legality issues and all the members that I know (and committers) wouldn't
do such a thing (most wouldn't touch GPL code with a large stick ;])
So surely whoever said it was most likely lieing.
> I say just f*****g try to do it. Source code is just a snapshot of what a
>product is. To make it evolve, to make it dynamic it�s the people that make
>it happen and as long as Rickard, Marc, Dan, Aaron, Ole and so many other
>JBoss contributors stick together there is no f*****g chance that the code
>could break. JBoss has the potential to become the Apache of the EJB servers
>at least IMHO, so threats like the one before are really really bad to open
>source development and it saddens me that there are actually people that
>think this way.
The real threat will occur when/if a legal issue arises in which case
jboss.org would most likely implode.
>But clearly there are some legal issues here, i�m not a lawyer and i really
>think a lawyer should be consulted here. In the event of legal dispute over
>JBoss it�s not Marc�s opinion or Donald�s opinion that will count, the only
>one that it counts its the lawyer�s and the judge�s so they should also be
>considered in this flame war.
right - seek legal advice and see what they tell you - whats the bet it is
same as GNU is saying ?
Cheers,
Pete
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