RE: Bundling Tomcat

[Randy Layman <ra...@aswethink.com>]

	I have dealt with it.  The software license spells it out pretty
clearly - Tomcat is free to distribute.  No royalties, no permission
required.  What you do need to be aware of is that you can't freely
redistribute the JDK.  You'll need to either pre-compile your JSPs or
distribute another Java Compiler (like Jikes from IBM), or somehow get Sun's
legal department to give you permission.

	Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L. Brueckmann [mailto:rbrueckmann@chessys.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Bundling Tomcat
> 
> 
> Hello all...I'm not sure if I'm sending this to right place 
> to ask this, but
> you're all developers and some of you might be doing 
> something similar...I
> will be developing a piece of software that is built using 
> servlets and JSPs
> and we'll be using Tomcat as our servlet container, now, when 
> the product is
> developed and tested and ready to ship...have any of you 
> bundled Tomcat with
> your product to sell to a customer and what types of 
> royalties and red tape
> do you have to go through with Apache in order to do 
> something like that?
> Is there a section of the Jakarta site that deals with all 
> these legal GPL
> issues and limitations and what have you?  Any help is 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> And if this question can't be answered on this list, can 
> someone possibly
> head in me in the correct direction?
> 
> Much appreciated,
> Rob Brueckmann
> 
>