http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Tue, 21 May 2013 18:17:45 -0400 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 What kind of spurred on that blog was that I recently asked Jim Driscoll, project lead on Glassfish, about re-licensing some of the code I had originally contributed. His answer was short and sweet, "you wrote it, you own...]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:15:20 -0500 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:15:20 -0500 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:15:20 -0500 Dec 11, 2005 Patrick Linskey 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 I would suggest that your experience has far more to do with being associated with the Reference Implementation than for Sun itself. If, for some awful reason, I wanted to work in the servlet container or JSP realm, it'd be more productive...]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:27:19 -0500 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:27:19 -0500 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:27:19 -0500 Dec 11, 2005 Jim Driscoll 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:17:29 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:17:29 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:17:29 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Robert Dean 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:46:27 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:46:27 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:46:27 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 hookomjj 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 I do understand that the ownership right is irrevokable, but there should be some rules on attaching licence to a product, should not they? The main question from a user's point of view is what if the author decides to go, say, from LGPL to...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:13:13 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:13:13 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:13:13 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Will Hartung 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 A common misconception about Open Source software is that is somehow "publicly owned". Open Source authors always retain ownership of the software, and are protected by the copyright laws of the countries in which they operate.The...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:57:17 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:57:17 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:57:17 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Michael Jouravlev 3 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 Can anyone explain is it possible for original creator to change the license for his/her software? Does the rule for license changing depend only of the laws of the country, or only on the initial licence? For example, what if one decides to...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:51:02 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:51:02 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:51:02 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Steve Loughran 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 Can anyone explain is it possible for original creator to change the license for his/her software? Does the rule for license changing depend only of the laws of the country, or only on the initial licence? For example, what if one decides to...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:33:17 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:33:17 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:33:17 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Paul Strack 4 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:17:43 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:17:43 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:17:43 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Michael Jouravlev 6 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 I did adopt the CDDL.

I think it's the best copy-left license for Java, Sun did a good thing by creating...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:54:41 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:54:41 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:54:41 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 gbevin 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37993 Move Over Apache," says that there might be competition for Apache's name recognition in the open source community - from...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:31:31 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:31:31 -0500 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:31:31 -0500 Dec 9, 2005 Joseph Ottinger 10