I also get the impression that Fluery is maligning the BSD-style license -- the most open and free open source license. Anyone can use BSD licensed code any way they want, with no restrictions -- including reselling the code under a commercial license. JBoss is licensed under the LGPL license -- a viral license. GPL licenses permit end users to use the software any way they wish, but they must contribute all derivative works back to the open source community, and any code that contains any portion of the GPL code must be licensed under GPL.
The bottom line is this: The Apache license (a BSD-style license) allows end users to use Apache Axis anyway they want. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Davanum Srinivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some interesting comments on SOAP/AXIS from Marc Fleury, CEO and Founder of JBoss IBM/Axis story is VERY OLD IBM forked after 1.0 (oct 2002(, others including me have stepped in. We have had 5 releases (including betas) since then (see http://ws.apache.org/axis/releases.html). The only reason JBoss did not notice this fact till now is because they did not feel the difference. Based on the work/community seeded by axis we now have a full fledged TLP (http://webservices.apache.org) thanks, dims On Tue, 04 May 2004 14:40:53 -0400, Daniel Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can we end users use Apache AXIS source code freely like we did to > Apache SOAP anymore? > > See details at http://crn.channelsupersearch.com/news/crn/49878.asp >
