Hey guys,
I think everyone admits that jBoss team has written
quite a cool piece of software. And the whole development
process seems to be so intensive....
As the result seems to be very solid technically the only
thing that can prevent jBoss from total success is it's licensing.
I think jBoss deserves a cooler license than just GPL -
what are you afraid of that could happen with more liberal
licenses ? If you had a more liberal license (BSD-style for
example) and company X took jBoss in their product and
sold it, that wouldn't stop your project. And if that company
writes some add-ons to it, it would make very much sense for
them to give that code to jBoss project also (I think that
something like this happens a lot for example in FreeBSD
world).
And, with more liberal license, all this discussion about
various problems arising from GPL would be totally unnecessary.
Also, as quite a lot of internet-related stuff (apache, tomcat....)
uses something else than GPL it would be much easier to integrate
all these things. Also, people inside software houses could
use jBoss without fearing their software to turn into
GPL stuff also. Wouldn't the result be total success ?
Regards,
Ari S.
> So I see we're adding still more jBoss code that directly
> references Tomcat classes. We wrote some interceptors, we call Tomcat to
> configure them, etc.
> The whole licensing thread seem to have died under it's own weight
> - which is OK, the heat was rising a little too fast for comfort. But I
> think it's more important than ever that something is done about the
> current jBoss license. We're quickly passing the point where we could
> "factor out" all the Tomcat specifics and claim to be using some generic
> interface. I think it's very clear that we're tightly integrated with
> Tomcat (I see around 20 instances of "org.apache.tomcat"), and IMHO we
> cannot claim to be "merely aggregating".
>
> Aaron
>
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