+1 Cheers Daniel
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:43 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On 3/31/2012 8:43 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Ross Gardler >> <rgard...@opendirective.com>wrote: >> >>> There isn't (to my knowledge), I can imagine an increasing number of >>> projects wanting such a thing though. Unless someone tells me I'm >>> wrong and we already have one would you be interested in seeing if >>> Apple are open to such an arrangement? >>> >>> >> >> I'd recommend first very careful review of the licensing terms first, on >> legal-discuss, to ensure that we're comfortable with any restrictions use >> of their SDK brings. This would also help with other potential >> contributors who might have iOS apps they would like to contribute, but >> whose current analysis suggests that the Apple terms are incompatible. > > nonsense > > These are the very same SDK tools that these very same Apache Committers > already > use on a daily basis. > > The only modulo here is that some have access through work. Some purchase > their > own access. Some have been comp'ed subscriptions individually or through > other > organizations. > > This simply makes the same tool for a committer free or discounted from what > they already paid. For example, I was an MSDN subscriber through work for > some > years, as a consultant for some years, took a break from my subscription on > some > other years. Now, I'm using a subscription donated for ASF committers. > Nothing > changed. > > Sure, you can have a discussion about whether some WizBang API introduces new > licensing restrictions, platform lock-in, etc. But we are NOT GOING TO BEGIN > auditing the Oracle Developer Suite, the Microsoft Developer Network, the > Apple > Developer Network, the IBM HP VMware Google RedHat Citrix Adobe Amazon (OH GOD > MAKE IT STOP!!!) developer tool program for every possible future quirk. > > There are real questions to be asked about specific tools and specific api's > in > the open source and closed source world and the projects which are affected > need > to do their homework and work with ASF legal to resolve ambiguity. But any of > these examples includes hundreds of tools and api's and sdk's which have no > intersection with an ASF code base. > > If Jim works out some connections for ASF <> Apple and you use Apple then > enjoy > that perk, and otherwise, please EIGNORE? Thanks :) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
