Daniel de Kok wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Steven Stallion <stallions at ociweb.com> wrote: >> With regard to distributing a JVM, it is out of scope (see above). > > Not fully, since we can not distribute JVMs with e.g. Sun's > indemnification clause. If this is to be a CentOS project, I think it > should be runnable with CentOS plus a JDK that we can distribute. As > far as I am aware, the only Sun-heritage JDK that we can distribute > are the GPL'ed OpenJDK bits. Does JBoss work well with this JDK? I think there may be a misunderstanding of how JBoss is packaged and shipped. There is no JVM distributed along with JBoss; CentAS would be treated precisely the same. Again, it is designed to run on a number of different JVM's which of course vary for each deployment platform. > We require this for all CentOS-hosted projects and SIGs. CentOS is a > long-term project, and having a development team member on a > subproject will guarantee some continuity. Apart from that, some > decisions (e.g. some policy decisions) may need to be delegated to the > development team. Makse sense; thanks for the explanation. > May I ask a more explicit question: what advantages will a whitelabel > JBoss stack give to CentOS over RHWAS, taking the additional > maintenance "costs" into account? Additionally, how will continuity be > guaranteed for existing users if Object Computing loses interest in > maintaining this? As far as the advantages go, the a whitelabel JBoss allows for modified redistributions of JBoss; currently this is not possible due to Red Hat Trademark Guidelines. There are a number of projects/companies out there which rely on JBoss, and in some cases require re-distributing JBoss alongside their project. I certainly understand the concern with respect to project continuity. This is a long term project for OCI; there is quite a bit of money invested into this. OCI has been providing for similar projects (TAO, JacORB) for over 10 years now; the same longevity is expected for JBoss related projects. > Not to burn down your project proposal ;), but I think these are > important questions to answer beforehand. Absolutely! I appreciate the feedback. > > -- Daniel > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -- Steven Stallion Senior Software Engineer Object Computing, Inc. http://www.ociweb.com