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by Jens E.
Original Post: David, Goliath and the Truth
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Given the series of attacks by the JBoss group, I feel it is important to clarify Genuitec's open source adoption strategy and license compliance policy. First and foremost, we take license compliance very seriously and fully comply with the third-party licenses used in MyEclipse. With 11,000 companies using MyEclipse in 150 countries, we simply can not afford to play the kind of games being attributed to us in the latest round of attacks.
To bring closure to the Hibernate Tools discussion, it is unfortunate that we had to air both companies' dirty laundry in public. However, the ongoing spat is rooted in what started out as a win-win partnership that degenerated quickly into the current name calling from the JBoss camp. To set the record straight, Genuitec reached out to the JBoss IDE team well over a year ago in an effort to assist them evolve their tooling into an extensible framework upon which we (and others) could add more value. We thought that JBoss could allow community-based extensibility and enhancements through the addition of several extension points that Genuitec was proposing. Although the discussion looked promising at first, in the end we chose to create the extension points internally in order to meet our delivery commitments. Once we completed and tested these extensions, the Hibernate team was provided the source code changes and encouraged to integrate them into their next release. To date, they have apparently done nothing with our contribution.
Given their history, I cannot help but fault Genuitec for assuming that providing our source code changes to the Hibernate team would motivate them to accept the enhancements and thereby make the changes public. For that poor assumption, shame on us. We provided the source to all our modification, in good faith, directly to them when they were made. However, since they chose to discard our enhancements, our changes are technically not available to others. But insinuating that we don't comply with their license, or haven't attempted to comply by providing the modified source to them, is extremely disingenuous.
To address this issue fully and transparently, we are making it very simple for everyone to see our open source modifications and contributions by consolidating them at the following link: Genuitec Open Source
Feel free to contact legal-AT-genuitec-DOT-com for any future questions regarding license compliance.
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