Let's keep this on the "options for integrating jBoss and other projects"
track Jon. It seems obvious to me that we can integrate legally and
technically no real problem IMO.
Many *choose* not to integrate where GPL is concerned for a number of
reasons. That is their prerogative. Their is no illegality involved in any
of this and I am quite happy for each project to decide it's license based
on it's communities preferences.
I like GPL/LGPL because it's
"contribute-your-changes-to-the-community-that-gave-you-this-product" ethos
is right on. I am on other BSD-style projects and I don't wage a constant
"move to GPL/LGPL" war with them. That choice is cool for those projects and
I respect that.
Cheers!,
Micheal
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Stevens
| Sent: 29 October 2000 00:36
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jBoss Developer;
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update
|
|
| on 10/28/2000 4:06 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > Indeed if the Avalon guy puts jBoss code in his tree and
| "contains" our work
| > in his work then yeah.. that needs to be GPL.
|
| Bingo. So, this is something that is a major problem for me.
|
| > This is the mutations I was talking about... but the ASF decides not
| > to mingle with 60% of the world's OSS codebase *deliberately*.
|
| I'm sorry, but where exactly do you get that 60% number from?
|
| The ASF decides not to mingle with X% of the worlds OSS codebase
| *deliberately* for a reason. The reason is simply that the ASF does not
| believe in putting excessive restrictions on source code to prevent what
| people can and cannot do with it.
|
| This is different than the GPL ideology which is based on a completely
| whacked view of the universe that RMS decided to inflict on people.
|
| In my mind, OSS is about simply getting credit for the work that
| you do, not
| requiring people to either jump through hoops or give back their additions
| or changes to my source code. I don't give a rats ass what people
| do with my
| source code as long as they simply give me credit for my hard work.
|
| Obviously you don't understand that concept yet. 7 years ago when
| I started
| contributing to OSS projects, I didn't get it either.
|
| In time, I have hope that you will eventually "get it". Good luck. I hope
| that you don't get to badly burned in the process.
|
| -jon
|
|
