At 01:08 4/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Pete wrote:
>>
>> Well your right - it is much better to do things illegally
>> whilst attacking the foundations of free software community.
>> Gee how silly of me to forget.
>
>Please give an ignorant non-author a little help here. I've still not
>gotten the point of this alleged illegality. How is jboss any
>different from my unix system, which has LGPL'd libraries peacefully
>coexisting with libraries that fall under non-GNU licenses. All were
>shipped to me on a single CD. Yet none of the hackers that created
>this mess have been brought up on charges. What gives?
thats perfectly allowed. However it would be illegal to ship (L)GPL
libraries/works that relied on non-GPL compatable works and those works
were not covered by clause 3 of GPL (ie ship with OS/compiler). This is
what jBoss did last release.
Cheers,
Pete
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