Re: [DotGNU]EJB & dotGNU

[David Sugar]

Actually, the problem, as I see it, is quite the reverse.  There is no way to 
apply the current GPL to this model; the bean called on the remote server is 
clearly neither a linked nor derived work in the sense the GPL implies.  This 
is clearly a bug in the GPL because there is no direct way to apply the 
current GPL to such systems.

However, assuming issues on the GPL side can be resolved to fix this "bug", I 
think something like the LGPL might be the correct answer for some (but not 
all) of these things.  If the EJB running on a DotGNU server is itself under 
the GPL, it can still be invoked by the remote application regardless of 
licensing.  At best this achieves the result of the LGPL in the more 
traditional application world since the library code (or in this case core EJB 
service) at this point can be licensed under the full protection of the GPL, 
but can still be called by (much like the LGPL says linked to) proprietary 
applications.

Nicolas Fogg wrote:

> Hi All,
>     I understand that dotGNU may support Java bytecode and this interests me a 
> great
> deal, as I am an experienced Java programmer and would be very interested in 
> developing
> Open Source/GPL Java components for dotGNU. However I have not seen anyone 
> mention
> EJBs. Correct me here if I am wrong, but from what I understand about .NET it 
> attempts
> to create a distributed computing platform that in many ways could be 
> implemented using
> Java and EJBs.
>
>     Is there a place for EJBs in the dotGNU backend? Why/Why not?
>     Do you guys see a place for EJB implementations of certain services. eg: A
> LoginAuthentication EJB that can be plugged into an existing J2EE application 
> to add
> support for dotGNU login services.
>     If such components ever exist what would be the implications for commercial
> software developers using dotGNU EJB components in a commercial closed source
> application. Would it ever be legal to call a method in a GNU component from a 
> method
> in a closed source application, even if it happens over a network and the two
> components are running on seperate machines?
>     If the answer is no, does this mean that commercial closed source 
> applications have
> no place in the dotGNU world?
>
> Thanks
> Nic
>
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