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Hi,apparently this thread forked for some reason... Maybe we should bring it back as a single one on community. For this reason, I CC'ed community@OW.
I'm not sure you received my comments on local regulations. I have good reasons to think that Sun's licensing provisions wrt to the prohibition of implementation may not be 100% valid in Europe or Asia -- or at least, that someone may argue azgainst them. As for LGPL + sun licenses. The LGPL explicitely prohibits the (re-)distributor(s) of the work or of derivative works to restrict the redistribution rights. However, the "certification" applies to a *binary*, whereas LGPL first applies to source code. This means that legal workarounds may be found, as long as the copyright holders agree on them.
Anyway, I think this question deserves a broader discussion, because the answers may be a little intricate.
At 17:37 15/03/2004, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Hi - On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:49:36AM +0100, Emmanuel Cecchet wrote: > [...] > Here is my personal point of view on this. > All implementations of J2EE (open source or not) that have not passed > the Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) are illegal since the Sun specification > copyright agreement specifies: [...] Yes, I got wind of this novel legal theory recently. Personally, I find the scheme rather repulsive. > The only way to distribute an implementation of the J2EE specification > (open source or not) is to license the TCK from Sun. This is what > ObjectWeb did. This is currently the only way to go to be able to > distribute a J2EE compliant application server be it open source or not. > In any case, this will not change the license terms of JOnAS that will > remain LGPL software. [...] The problem with this is that the redistribution privileges granted by the LGPL (or BSD) appear to be overridden by the licensing requirements claimed by Sun. That is, people who download even a TCK-passing JOnAS might be legally threatened into not exercising some of their LGPL privileges. > Once again, this is only my personal opinion. Likewise. - FChE --You receive this message as a subscriber of the jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.To unsubscribe: mailto:jonas-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx For general help: mailto:sympa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=help ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/wws
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