Re: TAO license - Debian misinterpretation (fwd)]
Ossama Othman <ossama@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> wrote:
> People can certainly modify TAO to support any standard they want (in
> fact, we're planning on doing this to support a DCOM/CORBA bridge
> shortly, as well as a wide variety of protocols other than IIOP 1.0).
> As long as it's still possible to ALSO support IIOP 1.0 with the
> modified version, then there's no problem wrt the Sun license. If you
> want to remove the IIOP support completely, then you'll need to check
> with Sun to make sure that's ok.
So, if someone takes TAO code and puts it in a CORBA client, that client
must also have all the functionality of the ORB?
I still don't understand why this should be a legal issue, if the software
is renamed so that it's called something other than TAO.
--
Raul
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