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Story: JBoss downplays open-source code 'plagiarism'

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None of the examples hold up to even brief scrutiny. The three named exhibits include two which appear to be code JBoss took from a different ASF project (log4j) and renamed, removing the copyright attribution in volation of the Apache Software License. The remaining piece appears to have been originally contributed to the JBoss group by someone who then subsequently also choose to contribute it to the geronimo project:

http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=140

JBoss cannot copyright ideas, and the claims of copyright infringement appear questionable based on a review of the code and a close examination of the source of JBoss' code itself. JBoss has the right to distribute the code under the LGPL; that doesn't mean that JBoss owns the copyright on all the code.

Disclaimer: I'm a member of the ASF, though I'm not at all involved with the geronimo project nor am I an officer of it. These views are my own, not those of the ASF.

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