On 30 April 2010 16:45, <brian_at_reindel.com> wrote:
> I just had an interesting conversation with our product development team,
> and asked why on a recent project they chose Spring MVC for
> request/response handling over Jersey, or if they had completed an
> evaluation. The problem apparently is that GPL is not a business friendly
> (for our business) license, in that it requires derivative works to be GPL
> as well? We implement a paid source product with a custom license, and
> apparently we've had issues with other GPL licensed APIs, and are now
> limited to LGPL, Apache, BSD and a few others. Can someone speak to this
> more? I want to use Jersey to put in a REST abstraction, and it would suck
> if I can't because of a license discrepancy.
You can use the CDDL license which is fine. Many folks already use
CDDL stuff already without realising it (e.g. many
web/web-service/rest stuff including Spring uses JAXB which is CDDL
for example).
It would be easier if Jersey were Apache License though... :)
/me ducks...
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James
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