Re:Enhydra is full of.... (Score 1)

SCSL prohibits you from distributing covered code to anyone who is not a SCSL licensee, and "distributing" includes even having an open cvs repository. That means everyone in your "open source" community has to be a SCSL licensee - which sounds doable, until you realize that SCSL licensees agree not to deploy except compliant covered code - i.e., tested and certified. So you can be open source, but you can't build and run it. I certainly would not contribute to a project where I couldn't use what I contributed. So then should Lutris have given away compliant covered code, only publishing what's tested? So I guess you're right, if Lutris published code that had been tested and certified and people agreed to SCSL terms and all the code was available to anyone who'd signed SCSL - I guess that's possible. But it's not compatible with the Mozilla license that it was under. As for Tomcat, it's hardly an app server, though 4.0 has some way cool stuff in it. To equate them is to ignore the difference in engineering effort between tomcat and the multi-thousand-dollar app servers. jBoss has a huge number of good developers, and the quality is still not commercial grade by any means. Don't get me wrong. Lutris may be using this to cover their retreat, but that doesn't mean they weren't forced into it or that Sun is using SCSL/JCP as a way of containing the open source movement as applied to Java.