On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Dan Armbrust wrote: >>> If Tomcat were under GPL, we wouldn't be using >>> Tomcat. Simple as that. >> >> You most likely would, since you are insulated from the tomcat >> implementation by the servlet/jsp/jsf/whatver interface >> specification. > > Corporate lawyers don't want to even here the word GPL, much less > debate what makes something a derivative work. > > In a company large enough to have its own lawyers, just mention the > word GPL related to one of your software releases and see what happens > :) ACTUALLY, when I worked for Ingersoll-Rand, they had a rather restrictive "inventor's" clause they wanted me to sign, which, essentially, wanted me to sign ALL rights to anything I wrote/built/ designed/thought-of/fathered/etc. I denied, and we re-negotiated things. One of those was that any software utilities I wrote would be attributable to me, and GPL'd. Better than me just having to sign everything to them. For the record, I'm not a fan of GPL'd software, I prefer a BSD license, but in this circumstance, it was a reasonable middle-ground. --- Eric Crist