RE: NMS

2007-06-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
John O'Hara wrote: > On the IETF thread, the early standards were 'clean'. And there is a > requirement to register patent interests against RFC's. Yes *early* IETF standards were clean, but they are supposed to be the guardians of the I in IETF, and have been delinquent by allowing IP constrain

Re: NMS

2007-06-11 Thread John O'Hara
On the IETF thread, the early standards were 'clean'. And there is a requirement to register patent interests against RFC's. On 07/06/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) > encumbered standards

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
the JMS API under an unencumbered license we could do > that, otherwise we could start from scratch. > > This Apache Messaging API could then be freely implementable under > AL2.0 license rules without having to worry about this sort of IP FWIW this is why we created NMS for .Net and CMS for C++

RE: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) > encumbered standards now. So, even implementing IETF standards > is now dangerous. The IETF has lost a lot of credibility as an independent standards body, and really ought to be ashamed. But they are har

RE: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
AIUI, the legality of Sun's specification licenses is considered dubious. Not that dubious defines a stance or action, just a note. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 6/7/07, John O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> AMQP itself was designed mostly based on IETF concepts which are >> unencumbered (like smtp, nntp, nfs). > > This is not true going forward as the IETF specifically permits (and, > some may say, encourages) encumbered

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 6/7/07, John O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AMQP itself was designed mostly based on IETF concepts which are unencumbered (like smtp, nntp, nfs). This is not true going forward as the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) encumbered standards now. So, even implementin

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
On 6/7/07, John O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bingo. Nicely explained. I'm glad someone else sees the problem. We need to keep our software 100% clean; its amazing how much IP law you need to know to write code and give it away. Which is why the generic form API for AMQP should be derived

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
t from scratch. This Apache Messaging API could then be freely implementable under AL2.0 license rules without having to worry about this sort of IP FWIW this is why we created NMS for .Net and CMS for C++ along with APIs for Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Smalltalk and yes, even Flash as well. Though c

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
e 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 f

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread James Strachan
On 6/7/07, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is NMS? NMS is a .NET version of JMS. Not quite. Its a .Net Messaging API to the various MOMs available on the .Net platform such as MSMQ, TibCo, MQSeries together with new implementations such as for ActiveMQ and Stomp. It

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Thursday 07 June 2007 21:34, Paul Fremantle wrote: > > 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. Nitpicking

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
ed 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 "de

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread John O'Hara
gt; 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. Sin

RE: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Jim Barnett
uals clauses" are intended to mitigate. I haven't formed an opinion on the issue in chief yet, but thought the above might be helpful in structuring our review of the issue regarding similarities between the JMS specification and the NMS API. Regards, Jim -Original Message- Fr

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
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

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Hiram Chirino
e patents in place to enforce it. 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 initiall

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
what is NMS? NMS is a .NET version of JMS. In other words an API that allows .NET clients to interact with a messaging server, especially one that follows the same semantics as JMS (i.e. a JMS server like Apache ActiveMQ) what is the NMS API? Same as above. who specficies it? NMS has been

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread Paul Fremantle
ar 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. Paul On 6/7/07, Hiram Chirino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ceased use of and destroyed my copy of the Specification years ago =) But seriously, what kind of

Re: NMS

2007-06-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 6/7/07, Hiram Chirino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ceased use of and destroyed my copy of the Specification years ago =) But seriously, what kind of IP is it that is being violated? copyright? patent? or some other kind that I'm not aware of? what is NMS? what is the NM

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread Hiram Chirino
en thinking about implementing the NMS API as part of the QPID .Net client. However we are concerned about potential legal issues. It seems to me that the NMS API is very similar to the JMS one but the JMS specification specifically licenses the technology "only for Java". This is the rel

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Fremantle
NMS is something that the Apache ActiveMQ team have done. http://activemq.apache.org/nms/ Whether we are in violation of the Sun licenses is a fine question. Paul On 6/6/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: which standards body created NMS? - robert On 6/1/07, Carl Tr

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Fremantle
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NMS > > Hello, > > We have been thinking about implementing the NMS API as part > of the QPID .Net client. However we are concerned about > potential legal issues. > It seems to me that the NMS API is very similar to th

Re: NMS

2007-06-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
which standards body created NMS? - robert On 6/1/07, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Coping incubator general and apache legal lists on this thread for additional comments on this topic. Carl. John O'Hara wrote: > Yes, IBM are I fully paid up licensee of Java techno

Re: NMS

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Trieloff
some time back, and they said they did not have the right to grant that approval Unless Apache has a license to do this that I am not aware of, we are not on safe ground since NMS is clearly a derived work of JMS. Wait for the lawyers John On 01/06/07, Colin Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: NMS

2007-06-01 Thread Colin Crist
: 01 June 2007 15:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; general@incubator.apache.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NMS > > Hello, > > We have been thinking about implementing the NMS API as part > of the QPID .Net client. However we are concerned about >

NMS

2007-06-01 Thread Arnaud Simon
Hello, We have been thinking about implementing the NMS API as part of the QPID .Net client. However we are concerned about potential legal issues. It seems to me that the NMS API is very similar to the JMS one but the JMS specification specifically licenses the technology "only for Java&qu