On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hiram
> I guess you are referring to the license to that allows a person to
> hold a copy of the JMS spec. I wonder if violating/terminating the
> that license IP taints any work created using Ideas obtain from it.
> Since this seems to be in the Idea category... I would have thought
> that there would need some patents in place to enforce it.
Not really. Once you agree to a contract (like that license) its
simply contract law, AFAIK.
> > at the JMS specification. Secondly the JMS copyright. Since, as far as
> > I can see, NMS is likely to be a "derived work" of JMS it is also
> > likely that it breaches the copyright of the spec.
> >
>
> I can assure you that no copying has taken place. NMS was initially
> not an abstract messaging API. It was just an API to the .NET client
> implementation for ActiveMQ. Once that started to take shape an
> abstract API that has the same domain model as JMS was extracted from
> the implementation. It would be more accurate to say that NMS is a
> derived work of an ActiveMQ client.
Yes, but where did the ActiveMQ design come from? Since ActiveMQ was
designed - as I understand it - as an implementation of the JMS spec,
Not really - it was designed to be a message broker of similar
capability as things like MSMQ, MQSeries & TibCo. So there's various
APIs, protocols and clients for connecting to it...
http://activemq.apache.org/protocols.html
http://activemq.apache.org/cross-language-clients.html
JMS is just the API used on the Java platform for working with a provider.
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James
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