If you are working on a competing product at your day job and JBoss by night, you risk infecting your employer's codebase with LGPL code, and the JBoss code by proprietary code. I'm not saying you'd intentionally do that, but it would be legally difficult to defend even incidental similarities in the code base. There probably are similarities, since both products attempt to implement the same spec.
Sorry to see you go, Andy, but this is one where pragmatics point to listening to the lawers.
-danch
Andy wrote:
Hi
Oohh, the power of legal issues, you can justify nearly everything.
Instead of looking for a mutual compromise to resolve this issue
Marc (and others) sought a more terminal solution.
Andy
----- Original Message ----- From: "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 7:49 AM
Subject: jRE: [JBoss-dev] Good-bye II
Andy is working on a competing implementation to jboss. His own lawyers at his company have requested he not work on JBoss, he was doing so anyway under an alias. We only found out about the competing aspect a couple of days ago. To protect ourselves legally, we removed Andy's RW, we will in fact remove the code contributions. We cannot have a competitor's code in our base as it exposes us legally. It is only the second time this has happened in our history. The mail below is an expression of Andy's personal gripes and bitterness. Period.marcf
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