Hello toby, Sun licenses don't allow for redistribution. However we haven't got any word from sun lawyers as yet to discontinue making it available from our download sites. I guess they are walking the tight rope between the "we love open source" but "all open source J2EE efforts are illegal". Essentially put the jar in the cvs and when we are told to stop we will, in the mean time let's make it easy for our users. marc |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toby Allsopp |Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 2:10 PM |To: jBoss Developer |Subject: [jBoss-Dev] Licensing issues with J2EE Connector Architecture | | |This might be better discussed on jbosslicense, but I won't agree to the |enormous contract that eGroups makes you agree to before even looking at |the archives. | |The required jar file for JCA support is licensed in such a way that I |don't think we can distribute it. This should change once it's released |in final form (it's still public final draft), but for now I don't think |I'm allowed to put it in CVS, which means that the alpha JCA |implementation I'm almost ready to commit won't compile. | |This is easily fixed for people interested in the JCA because they can |just grab the jar from Sun, but for everyone else it will be something |of a pain in the arse. | |I imagine this kind of thing has come up before, Sun being as they are |with licensing. What would the board prefer - a CVS that requires a |separate download to build, a CVS that violates the license for |connector.jar, a separate tar-ball containing the JCA implementation + |patches or something that I haven't thought of? | | |Toby. | | |
