Hi,
Just my $.02:
IMHO, logging is for displaying and possibly
storing information seen at runtime.
I don't think they were meant for legal documents.
IANAL, but copying these to the logfiles could
be bad for the JBoss user if a legal conflict
about the license occurs: At discovery, the
copyright holder would request a copy of the
logfile and say: "See, your honor, this was
printed at every deployment. So there is no way
this JBoss user could have overlooked that
requirement in our license terms."
If the JCA specification *requires* that this
must be printed to the console or log files,
we should do it.
But otherwise: No. We already log more than
enough.
Best Regards,
Ole Husgaard.
Aaron Mulder wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Toby Allsopp wrote:
> > I have a problem with this. Software licenses apply only to copying,
> > because they are an artifact of copyright law. If you have legally
> > obtained the software (for which you may have had to agree to a license
> > because you may have copied it) you can *use* it an any way you want.
> >
> > Deploying a resource adapter is firmly covered by fair use.
>
> However, if you read the spec, it say the license flag indicates
> "whether a license is required to deploy and use the resource adapter".
> And if you read many licenses, they all seem to grant you the right to use
> the product.
>
> Aaron
