On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:18 PM, James Strachan wrote:
> 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).
>
Right. CDDL is often misunderstood.
You can choose CDDL or GPL as per your requirements.
> It would be easier if Jersey were Apache License though... :)
> /me ducks...
>
I agree /me ducks too... But i do not make the decisions on this :-)
Paul.