OpenLaszlo as an Apache Software Foundation project: That definitely would help the OpenLaszlo project, but going through the legal process of contributing a project like OpenLaszlo to Apache is A LOT of work. The Adobe legal department seemed to be very busy - including high-level management - to go through all steps for a legal clearing to contribute the code. In Adobe's case, that took the company 3-4 months, but I read that the total size of the SVN repository was more than 10 GB.
And there are some tricky things: Apache Flex, for example, is not allowed to include the playerglobal.swc for the Flex SDK in their code base project tree. That means, for future releases of Apache Flex, they need to use a script to download the playerglobal.swc from a separate location and add it to the local system using an environment variable PLAYERGLOBAL. The code for automatic embedding of TTF fonts can not be contributed to Apache Flex, for legal reasons. If OpenLaszlo would become an ASF project, those limitations would apply to OpenLaszlo as well, making it more difficult to provide the out-of-the-box experience you currently have. Still, the advantage of being an Apache project would be tremendous. - Raju
