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Protomatter Application Server version 1.0 SourceForge Project Summary Page Released January 1, 2002

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• Protomatter Software License (an Apache-style OpenSource license)

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• Classes (40 K)
• Javadoc (204 K)
• Source (88 K)

Third Party Libraries:

Apache Ant
The Apache Ant build tool is required if you want to build the packages yourself. It is not required to run. This release was built using Ant 1.4.
JavaSoft J2EE Packages
If you are building the classes, you'll need the J2EE packages to compile. Specifically, the javax.naming.* packages.
JDK or JRE 1.2 or later
These classes require at least JDK 1.2 to work. Currently, I am developing and compiling under JDK 1.3.1, and doing some experimentation with JDK 1.4. For more information on JDK and JRE versions for different platforms, please see java.sun.com.

• Changed the license for everything from the LGPL to the new, Apache-style license: The Protomatter Software License. The only difference between the two licenses is the name of the project. If your lawyers have approved the Apache license, they will approve this one.

  Why the license change? I've had lots of questions about commercial use of the libraries, and many corporations are in one way or another paranoid about the LGPL being too close to the GLP, which is quite viral. The Apache license more closely mirrors my own needs for a free software license -- it is extremely simple and clear, and it fits with corporate (closed-source) use of the library. To that end, I've decided to adopt the new license.

  If you have any questions about licensing, please don't hesitate to send email to support@protomatter.com. If it takes your lawyer more than 10 minutes to evaluate the license, they are ripping you off -- it's that simple. If they are paranoid enough about things, I'm willing to co-license with select other open-source licenses in extreme cases. Argh... legalese is so annoying.

  Also, this is not un-common. Other projects like JDom have done this (their license is much like mine), WebDAV has a similar license, PHP has a similar license, and of course all Apache Software Foundation projects are licensed under similar licenses. These licenses are all in essence the BSD license, mildly adapted.

  It's unfortunate that what essentially happens is that each project gets its own license, when what you really want is to say "License myLicense = new ApacheLicense("Protomatter")" but life isn't like that.

   

• I've decided to move all the PAS code into its own project. The main reason for this is that I'm not doing any active development on PAS anymore, and since it's essentially frozen, I wanted to move the code out into a separate project.

The Future:

I am no longer actively developing PAS.

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