If you look at the jboss-license list at e-groups (now defunct, I believe),
you'll see a post from me several months old about the licensing of J2EE and
open source. We've known for a long time that Sun would not allow an open
source J2EE server. Working for a corporation that is a Sun J2EE licensee,
our lawyers ran into this a long time ago. It's nothing new. I've wondered
when and if Sun would try to squelch JBoss from doing things like shipping
ejb.jar or even using any of the J2EE interfaces. As far as Sun is
concerned, they own everything, including interface and class definitions
and names.
On a side note, I don't think Marc Fleury is ignorant of these issues. And
certainly Sun is aware of JBoss. So until and unless you get a "cease and
desist" order or something, I think you can just keep coding.
Best,
Scott Stirling
JRun QA
Macromedia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] [JBoss-user] OpenSource and J2EE licensing
> (fwd)
>
>
> I think they're feeling the pinch in tough times and are
> turning their backs
> on the open source community. A great shame. I noticed, too
> that InstantDB
> (which Lutris purchase a year or two ago from some british
> company) was
> supposed to go open source but, unfortunately, never did.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:35 PM
> Subject: [JBoss-dev] [JBoss-user] OpenSource and J2EE licensing (fwd)
>
>
> > I don't know if you have see this yet... I just read the notice on
> > enhydra.org. I am really surprised by this.
> >
> > What the *uck is Sun doing? I generally never really read source
> licenses,
> > because they are written by lawyers.
> >
> > I just want to write software...
> >
> > --jason
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: nathan frund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [JBoss-user] OpenSource and J2EE licensing
> >
> > Hi all, recenlty Lutris pulled the plug on its
> > OpenSource Enhydra Enterprise server citing that J2EE
> > licensing is incompatible with all OpenSource
> > licenses. Does this have any impact on JBoss?
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