jazzlib-developers

[Jazzlib-developers] licensing question

[Bosko M. <bo...@io...>]

Hi,
 
we are making a J2ME application that should be able to handle zip files
on mobile phone. We have migrated some of your classes to one of mobile
phone models and it seems to work fine. Intention is to sell the
application. Out client insist to have a exclusivity of 1 year to the
application which put us in situation not to be able to open the source
within this period. What shall we do? Is there any other possibility
that we satisfy our client and still to fit to your license?
 
Thanks for support.
 
Bosko Milosavljevic

Re: [Jazzlib-developers] licensing question

[Jochen H. <hoe...@gm...>]

2005/6/13, Bosko Milosavljevic <bo...@io...>:
> =20
> Hi,=20
>  =20
> we are making a J2ME application that should be able to handle zip files =
on
> mobile phone. We have migrated some of your classes to one of mobile phon=
e
> models and it seems to work fine. Intention is to sell the application. O=
ut
> client insist to have a exclusivity of 1 year to the application which pu=
t
> us in situation not to be able to open the source within this period. Wha=
t
> shall we do? Is there any other possibility that we satisfy our client an=
d
> still to fit to your license?=20

Jazzlib is licensed under GPL + *exception*. I think the exception rule
allows everything you need.  In short you are allowed to link your code aga=
inst
an unmodified version of jazzlib and put the result under a proprietery lic=
ense.
Only if you change the code of the jazzlib library itself you have to publi=
sh it
under GPL.

Regards,
  Jochen Hoenicke

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Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Email: hoe...@in...  Tel: +49 441 798 3124

Re: [Jazzlib-developers] licensing question

[John L. <je...@pi...>]

What happens when you include individual jazzlib source files into your
project. Or what if you include individual .class files from the jazzlib
jar?

John Leuner

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:01, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> 2005/6/13, Bosko Milosavljevic <bo...@io...>:
> >  
> > Hi, 
> >   
> > we are making a J2ME application that should be able to handle zip files on
> > mobile phone. We have migrated some of your classes to one of mobile phone
> > models and it seems to work fine. Intention is to sell the application. Out
> > client insist to have a exclusivity of 1 year to the application which put
> > us in situation not to be able to open the source within this period. What
> > shall we do? Is there any other possibility that we satisfy our client and
> > still to fit to your license? 
> 
> Jazzlib is licensed under GPL + *exception*. I think the exception rule
> allows everything you need.  In short you are allowed to link your code against
> an unmodified version of jazzlib and put the result under a proprietery license.
> Only if you change the code of the jazzlib library itself you have to publish it
> under GPL.
> 
> Regards,
>   Jochen Hoenicke

Re: [Jazzlib-developers] licensing question

[Jochen H. <hoe...@gm...>]

2005/6/15, John Leuner <je...@pi...>:
> What happens when you include individual jazzlib source files into your
> project. Or what if you include individual .class files from the jazzlib
> jar?

IANAL, but including single java or class files as is should be okay.
Similar thing happen automatically in C if you statically link against
a library: The linker just takes those object files from the archive that
are referenced by the code.

Regards,
  Jochen

--=20
Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Email: hoe...@in...  Tel: +49 441 798 3124