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[news.eclipse.technology.koi] Re: Case for SOAP

Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> I haven't researched this yet,  but one concern of mine is potential
> incompatabilities between the Eclipse and Jini licenses.  I don't think
> there are any real problems for this stage of technology development but
> ultimately I would like to see a collaboration infrastructure and
> collaborative features become part of the mainline Eclipse platform so we
> should at least try to avoid future licensing problem.

The language in the jini license is sufficiently scary that 
I abandoned a jini startup effort this past week.  Just 
getting the jini infrastructure in place was a significant 
effort I thought, and if it turned out I liked what I 
developed and wanted to deploy it within my company, then, 
if I understand all that licensing talk, I would have to go 
to the company lawyers and have them hash out a usage 
agreement with Sun.  It's interesting, but not THAT 
interesting.  Don't know if SOAP is any better or worse in 
that regard.

Rick