Re: [Tn5250j-general] [Fwd: Fw: TN5250J License]

2005-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pouncey
Matt and all Thanks for the explanation. To actually post and get messages from the group you will have to sign up to the list. If not they get stuck in the authority queue and have to be released. There is also an archive of all the past messages here: http://www.mail-archive.com/tn5250j-

Re: [Tn5250j-general] [Fwd: Fw: TN5250J License]

2005-12-14 Thread Matt . Bresnan
Kenneth, I have no problem answering your questions. Honesty is a core belief at Help/Systems. And I understand the concerns of your user base. We've used the TN5250J product and find it is a very nice tool. It is well written and very stable. In fact, many of my developers (me included) use i

Re: [Tn5250j-general] [Fwd: Fw: TN5250J License]

2005-12-14 Thread Pete Helgren
Wim (and all). Sorry not to weigh in until now. I have been very, very busy. Hoping things will slow down a bit over the next 2 or three weeks so I can do more on the tn5250j stuff. I am not a licensing expert but as I understand the LGPL, a company can integrate the java classes/jars (librar

Re: [Tn5250j-general] [Fwd: Fw: TN5250J License]

2005-12-14 Thread Wim . Van . Leuven
Hello all, as I understood it, the people from Help/Systems were looking for a 5250 protocol to embed into their product. Of course they will be charging their customers for this. As I interpret this, it's not a question of not OSS'ing the project anymore, but establishing a licensing policy on t