Yes. more competition makes things better for the users ;)
regards, Martin On 8/27/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/27/05, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope it will make things easier, I do not know the CDDL but I assume > > it is some kind of LGPL derivate, > > Not a good assumption. CDDL is broadly based on the Mozilla Public > License, and has been approved by the OSI. > > > but even if the myfaces people cannot take code directly from it, > > If the ASF Board deems the license compatible (on the agenda soon), > that would indeed be possible, as would using code from it (or other > CDDL projects -- this is the same license that Project Glassfish, the > J2EE 1.4 app server, is under). > > > at > > least there now is a chance to check out the sources on how the RI does > > instead of having to go over the reverse engineering/blackbox testing way. > > > > Ideal would be if Sun could warm up to the idea to put the RI into > > something BSDish, sort of using an apache project as RI, just like they > > do it with Tomcat for the JSP/Servlet core of their stuff. That model > > has worked the best for them in the past, and probably would work for > > JSF as well, having one project under the Apache Umbrella being the RI > > and also a good solid codebase where vendors can take over and other > > sideprojects can concentrate on the component sets and extension libs. > > > > But having it under the CDDL is at least a big improvement over the past > > of having the specs and a close sourced RI. > > > > CDDL *is* open source. It *can* be used freely (under the license > terms, just ike anything else, but please read it before you make > incorrect assumptions). It *is* being developed in an open project > (at java.net). > > For the market as a whole, it just means there will be two open source > impementations of the spec. > > > Werner > > Craig > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Trainings in English and German
