[Jchassis-devel] license changes and other news

[<sjs...@ya...>]

Hi all,

I have changed the licensing of JChassis to LGPL
(http://www.fsf.org/licenses/lgpl.txt) instead of GPL.
This will allow us to compete with other application
frameworks that have less restrictive licenses, whilst
still maintaining our right of attribution (the right
to be recognised as the authors of the code) and our
openeness.

The main deciding point was that the popularity of 
open source today is a recognition that open source
quality is good enough to compete with proprietary
software just based on its superior quality (take 
Apache and Linux for example), and should not need 
"protecting" by the GPL. That is, part of the idea
of the GPL is to force companies to start making their
source open - I now believe they are more likely to
do this because of perceived quality and process improvements
in this approach, rather than being coerced because they
need some GPL software package for their product.

Anyway, all source, script and build file headers
have been updated, as have the project web site and
the Trove categorisation. I have put some templates in
the doc/templates area in CVS.

I have not bothered changing the prototype code. This
is not meant for release anyway. Using the GPL there
will help protect anyone from snatching some of the 
future-oriented code there and going commercial with
it before we can release it in JChassis. Eventually,
all of that functionality will move to a JChassis release
(and hence LGPL) anyway.

Other news:

I have checked in an update tp the service configuration requirements
doc. I have labelled this as draft 1.

http://jchassis.sourceforge.net/v1/basic/doc/requirements/xml-service-configuration-v0.1-requirements.txt

I expect in the end there will be one big "basic service requirements"
doc that will incorporate this plus the 
requirments for the actual "basic services" (logging, command 
line parsing, etc.).

Cheers,
Sam.

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