JBoss vs. ASF — The row continues, with Jetty next up

The Jetty mailing list carried the news
quite a while ago that the HTTP server and servlet container would no longer be integrated as the web layer of the JBoss J2EE server. Things went quiet after several exchanges between the JBoss Group
and the ASF and the revocation of CVS commit access
for several leading developers. Among those affected was
Greg Wilkins, Jetty’s creator and lead developer.

It got to the point where the JBoss Group asked Greg Wilkins to remove the JBoss icons
from the Jetty project website. The whole situation was even more absurd than that. See Greg Wilkins’s blog post
JBoss™: Open Source Closed Project.

For a more balanced view, here are two comments by Pavel Kolesnikov in Jablok about
the dispute between JBoss and the ASF.

• (jablok.cz, November 13, 2003) JBoss vs. ASF — What Does the JBoss Group Say?
• (jablok.cz, November 11, 2003) JBoss vs. ASF — A Letter from JBoss’s Lawyers