Re: Open source software, license, and java class header

Ashish,

David is right on here. Read the license agreement
to make sure your
use of the code covered by the agreement. In most
cases, if you are
using the code internally, you don't have any
issues.

For something like jt400, the IBM Public License
gives you fairly broad
rights to redistribute the jt400 code. For me, I
usually just a=include
a link to the jt400 so it can be downloaded, rather
than including the
jt400.jar in my distributions. You can, however,
package it any way you
like.

If you have modified the actual jt400 source code
itself, the IBM Public
license allows you to redistribute those changes
without being required
to contribute your changes to the jt400 team.

As for your own code, you can chose to distribute it
however you want.
David's recommendation to engage an IP attorney to
protect your IP as
well as make sure you aren't infringing on others is
a good, but
expensive, recommendation. In the case of you using
JT400 for a DB
connection in your application, you don't have to
make any mention of
that in your source code or give credit to the jt400
team (unless you
want to).

Pete Helgren

Ashish Kulkarni wrote:

Hi
Is there some place where i can get information

about

what i need to add in my source code, when using

open

source projects,
For example if i am using JT400, which is open

source,

do i have to add anything to all my java source.
Is there any website or some thing for help

Ashish

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