JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity

Kanagawa writes "This morning, Jim Jagielski, Exec. V.P. and Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation, announced on the geronimo-dev mailing list that 'the ASF received a letter from JBoss's lawyers regarding... the similarity of code between [J2EE implementation] Geronimo and JBoss.' The letter is available in PDF. According to the letter, similarities were noticed back in July, and haven't been fixed."

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Copy of the letter in case of slashdotting

[Pakaran2]

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Subject: A Letter from JBoss's lawyers
From: Jim Jagielski
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:20:41 -0500

The ASF rec'd a letter from JBoss's lawyers regarding Geronimo
and the similarity of code between Geronimo and JBoss. They
cite a few "examples" but mention that:

1. That it strongly appears that code was
simply copied over
2. That we are violating (L)GPL.

I would like to place a copy of the letter on the Geronimo
site, but need some direction on doing that... Except
for HTTP releases and some minor things, I don't touch the
website build system.

In any case, this a CALL for ALL Geronimo developers
to ensure that any code is not copied from JBoss.
Recall, also, that if someone is the original
author of the code and donated that code to JBoss,
they can *still* donate the original code to the
ASF (unless they signed some sort of exclusivity
agreement). Original authors maintain ownership, and other project maintainers are free to have one-night-stands with hemos.

I'm attaching the PDF. When people reply, PLEASE
be sure to strip out the pics of RMS and taco!

again?

[Eudial]

Yet another "Hey! Their code ALSO starts with #include "?

Re:Even the variable names are the same

[neilg]

> b) Its standard java coding style rules NOT TO USE a "_" in a constant.

It is standard Java coding TO USE an undescore between words in a constant. At least according to Sun