Re: JBoss stalled (was Re: status of some packages ??)

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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 10:33 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> On 06/01/2010 05:09 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/29/2010 07:25 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>>>> JBoss[1] is still a *big* deficit. Potential for f14/15 ?
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure JBoss is still a no-go because of poor licensing,
>>> specifically:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479598
>>
>> That is a nonsense.
>>
>> JBoss is stalled because it depends on a package with:
>>
>> - incompatible license
>> - six years old
>> - dead upstream
>>
>> :-?
>
> This is true (well, the problem is that there is no applicable and valid
> license, not so much that it is incompatible), no matter how absurd it
> might seem.
>
> In general, Java licensing is... poor at best. This is admittedly a
> rather confusing case, but still.
>
This seems really dangerous. If JBoss has an unclear legal status due
to this, perhaps aopalliance needs to be reimplemented from scratch,
or JBoss should not depend on it?

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