Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-31 Thread Brett Porter
On 31/07/2011, at 4:51 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Trading > more or less insulting public emails with Jason does not qualify under > that rubric, in my opinion. Yes, personal attacks have no place here. Coming back after the weekend, I was disappointed with the tone of the thread. Everyone n

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-31 Thread Brett Porter
On 31/07/2011, at 6:04 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Kristian, > > legal-discuss is a public list, with public archives. You can go read > these remarks for yourself in the archive. I apologize for assuming > that you or anyone else didn't know that. Yes I am a member, but Ralph > and I are not

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
I would suggest you re-read Brett's last email as to why we continue to have this discussion. He seems to be able to word things a bit better than me. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> >> >>> > > >>> >>> >> > >

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Mark Struberg
That's fine, but who ensures us that you wont change your mind again? But fair enough, it will be much better at Eclipse than somewhere in the wild. LieGrue, strub --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Jason van Zyl wrote: > From: Jason van Zyl > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether &

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Mark Struberg
at, 7/30/11, Jason van Zyl wrote: > From: Jason van Zyl > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether > To: "Maven Developers List" > Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 9:08 PM > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > Many things changed within

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >> It is not for legal reasons. The policy is that we cannot fork software >> whose copyright owners do not wish us to do so. >> > > So then you can't fork any version of Aether. So why are we continuing this > discussion? Be a committer o

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > See below > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> >> On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >>> See below. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Jason van Z

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
See below Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> See below. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > Many things changed within the ASF which made me extremely uncomfortable, and > everyone is entitled to change their opinions and their decisions. It's not > as if everything remained immutable on the ASF side. Yes, I changed my mind > and de

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
ay that > you originally intended to do so in an intentional way. But that's what we > have now! > > LieGrue, > strub > > PS: Of course I know what you did for the project in the past, but that > doesn't change that very topic. > > > --- On Sat, 7/30/1

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Mark Struberg
hat we have now! LieGrue, strub PS: Of course I know what you did for the project in the past, but that doesn't change that very topic. --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Jason van Zyl wrote: > From: Jason van Zyl > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether > To: "Maven Developers List&qu

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > Jason. please read my post carefully. i did not say you were a thief, i said > there may be others who feel you are... i also said i do not agree with that > point of view. Sorry, I read it incorrectly. > > i will gladly accept your offer

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > See below. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> >> On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >>> The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a >>> change that A

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Connolly
Jason. please read my post carefully. i did not say you were a thief, i said there may be others who feel you are... i also said i do not agree with that point of view. i will gladly accept your offer to remove the merit wall. i am just interested in making the code easy to develop and fix, for t

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
See below. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a >> change that Aether doesn't want it can easily be incorporated here since the >>

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Benson Margulies
Kristian, legal-discuss is a public list, with public archives. You can go read these remarks for yourself in the archive. I apologize for assuming that you or anyone else didn't know that. Yes I am a member, but Ralph and I are not quoting any private crap. Note that some Ralph posed a relativel

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Le samedi 30 juillet 2011, John Casey a écrit : > But, how can we keep it from leaking into plugins, when it's using the > same plexus component system as the rest of Maven? > > This has long been a problem inside Maven, namely that we can't control > _which_ components plugin devs have access to,

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a change > that Aether doesn't want it can easily be incorporated here since the > original class could be taken and modified as necessary. Makes no difference. You could fork

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
lø., 30.07.2011 kl. 14.51 -0400, skrev Benson Margulies: > Commits were made that caused Maven to depend on > code outside of Apache. What's now clear is that this was a one-way > street, *whatever the license on the code*, due to the policy > requirement for voluntary contributions. Techn

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Jason van Zyl
Please don't call me a thief. If you're talking about Aether and Sisu and my decision to move those to Eclipse, they were never here and am responsible for funding the vast majority of the code written in those projects. As such do I not have the right to house those projects where I wish? At an

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers > wrote: >> The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a >> change that Aether doesn't want it can easily be incorporated here since the >> original class could be ta

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Benson Margulies
tly doomed to be >>> completely depending on an external project which was a central part of >>> maven-core short time ago. >>> >>> >>> LieGrue, >>> strub >>> >>> >>> --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Stephen Connolly >>> wrote

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a change > that Aether doesn't want it can easily be incorporated here since the > original class could be taken and modified as necessary. Ralph, I'd like to really unders

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
ter can participate if he likes. >> Of course, the doors are not closed, but we are currently doomed to be >> completely depending on an external project which was a central part of >> maven-core short time ago. >> >> >> LieGrue, >> strub >> >>

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a change that Aether doesn't want it can easily be incorporated here since the original class could be taken and modified as necessary. We'd have to figure out how to stitch those changes together, but from the guidance I got I

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Benson Margulies
Stephen, The problem we have here is that, under point (2), the horse has already left the barn. Or, at least, we'd need to re-evolve from Hyracotherium (Maven 2.2) back to Equus to really get rid of this problem. Maybe the move to Eclipse will result in a more open and equitable process of establ

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Connolly
1. are you seriously telling me that if acme corp were to fork aether, and do a shed-load of work on it, resulting in a far better aether than the eclipse hosted one and it was still epl licensed, that the board would view that as a breach of policy? if the answer is yes, then this is a sad sad wor

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread David Jencks
I also was just about to point out that the legal discuss thread indicated that (b) and (c) are equivalent violations of apache policy. Since jason/sonatype doesn't want this code at apache, and the board doesn't want us forking it somewhere else to use it because jason/sonatype doesn't want th

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
Can we create our own, new API that plugins should use for this? Eventually all of Maven could use that instead of Aether directly. Ralph On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:25 AM, John Casey wrote: > On 7/30/11 9:00 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: >> well it seems to me that we need to ensure that aether is n

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
gt; --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Stephen Connolly wrote: > >> From: Stephen Connolly >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether >> To: "Maven Developers List" >> Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 1:00 PM >> well it seems to me that we need to >> ensur

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread John Casey
On 7/30/11 9:00 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: well it seems to me that we need to ensure that aether is not leaking into our public api. if it is entirely private from plugins, then i really don't care if it is epl or dual... I agree completely. But, how can we keep it from leaking into plugins,

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Connolly
med to be completely depending on an external project which was a central part of maven-core short time ago. > > > LieGrue, > strub > > > --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Stephen Connolly wrote: > >> From: Stephen Connolly >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether >

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Ralph Goers
The board made it pretty clear that option b is also highly discouraged so I wouldn't list that as an option. The only viable path I see will be to ultimately include the EPL version of Aether and then replace it with our own code when someone decides there is something they want to do that req

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Mark Struberg
e if he likes. Of course, the doors are not closed, but we are currently doomed to be completely depending on an external project which was a central part of maven-core short time ago. LieGrue, strub --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Stephen Connolly wrote: > From: Stephen Connolly > Subject: Re: [

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Connolly
well it seems to me that we need to ensure that aether is not leaking into our public api. if it is entirely private from plugins, then i really don't care if it is epl or dual... dual would be nicer, and truer to the original plan whereby the code would be developed at github for speed, and then g

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-30 Thread Benson Margulies
I'd like to to try to put a little oxygen into this thread now, given the rather clear results of the vote thread. Ralph posed the following question on Legal Discuss: 'Can the Maven PMC pull a dual-licensed version of AEther back into Apache without a grant from Sonatype?' The answer was, "legal

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-19 Thread Benson Margulies
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that there may be a false dilemma here on the subject of forks. In general, the Foundation does not permit us to absorb large amounts of code without a formal grant, even if the code carries AL markings. This has come up in the incubator over and over. So, even i

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
r at Eclipse. > [1]: http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html [2]: http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.aether/ > txs and LieGrue, > strub > > --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> From: Jason van Zyl >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aeth

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-18 Thread John Casey
On 7/18/11 5:23 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: I worked on Aether to extract Maven specific parts (into maven-aether- provider): AFAIK, we are completely free to change anything in the formats used by Maven, either for POM or repositories. About licensing, I don't have any concern about EPL at Eclip

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-18 Thread John Casey
On 7/17/11 12:08 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: I think you are going to have to. Mark isn't the only one who has expressed the sentiment. Some of the discussions I've seen on changing the relationship Maven has with repository managers would surely require changes at the Aether layer. I don'

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-18 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
I worked on Aether to extract Maven specific parts (into maven-aether- provider): AFAIK, we are completely free to change anything in the formats used by Maven, either for POM or repositories. About licensing, I don't have any concern about EPL at Eclipse. The initial announced intend was to mov

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-18 Thread Arnaud Héritier
1.12 is EPL only : https://github.com/sonatype/sonatype-aether/blob/aether-1.12/README.md On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Mark Derricutt wrote: > Just reading this thread and was surprised as I wasn't aware Aether had > gone EPL only. > > I was about to start a thread around getting a Maven 3.

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Derricutt
Just reading this thread and was surprised as I wasn't aware Aether had gone EPL only. I was about to start a thread around getting a Maven 3.0.4 release pushed out using Aether 1.12 which solves a, IMHO -MAJOR- bug in Maven that prevents artifacts from being resolved properly when they come

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Benson Margulies
kristian, I want to repeat that b.b. has been perfectly hospitable about my little patch and proposal for a bigger one. your message, with which I have no disagreement, might give a casual reader another impression. On Jul 17, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Kristian Rosenvold wrote: > sø., 17.07.2011 kl. 09.

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
sø., 17.07.2011 kl. 09.26 -0400, skrev Benson Margulies: > After re-reading the ASF legal licensing policy, I'm starting this > thread to formally propose that the Maven incorporate versions of > Aether that are EPL without an AL dual-license. As per convention, > someone can make a VOTE thread on

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Struberg
son Margulies > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether > To: "Maven Developers List" > Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 7:44 PM > There's a technical point of interest > here. Aether has a very > extensive separation of interface and implementation. So, > the

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Benson Margulies
There's a technical point of interest here. Aether has a very extensive separation of interface and implementation. So, there's a great deal that we could do unilaterally while still using the EPL core. The existence of 'central', I'm reasonably sure, is not inside of Aether itself at all. I don't

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> I think you are going to have to. Mark isn't the only one who has expressed >> the sentiment. Some of the discussions I've seen on changing the >> relationship Maven has with repository managers would surely require changes >> at the

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Struberg
ther or to fork it if not necessary. But otoh not being able to fork it if there were problems is imo a no-go. Also, there are a few contributors eager to ship patches it seems... txs and LieGrue, strub --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Jason van Zyl wrote: > From: Jason van Zyl > Subject: Re: [DISCU

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Jason van Zyl
I don't believe Eclipse has a problem using code from Apache. [1]: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.orbit/?root=Tools_Project > LieGrue, > strub > > --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Ralph Goers wrote: > >> From: Ralph Goers >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] inco

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Struberg
es > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether > To: "Maven Developers List" > Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 4:08 PM > > > > I think you are going to have to. Mark isn't the only > one who has expressed the sentiment. Some of the discussions > I've s

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Benson Margulies
> > I think you are going to have to. Mark isn't the only one who has expressed > the sentiment. Some of the discussions I've seen on changing the relationship > Maven has with repository managers would surely require changes at the Aether > layer. I don't follow your last sentence. I just subm

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Struberg
are not under their control. And that also had nothing to do with any sentiment regarding a particular license but solely with the question of the maintainability. LieGrue, strub --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Ralph Goers wrote: > From: Ralph Goers > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aeth

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jul 17, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > So, the document states that the PMC decided that category B's are > acceptable by majority vote. As per standard ASF community norms, it's > better to give people a chance to achieve consensus and vote to affirm > it than to just stage a vot

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Benson Margulies
nside Maven. >> >> I tried to introduce such an interface layer for a few days but failed due >> to the deep integration... >> >> So I'd definitely -1 a EPL core dependency which once was part of maven core >> as long as there is no ALv2 alternative which we can

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Jesse McConnell
ency which once was part of maven core >> as long as there is no ALv2 alternative which we can bugfix ourselfs! >> >> LieGrue, >> strub >> >> --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >>> From: Benson Margulies >>> Subject: [DISCUSS]

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
ch we can bugfix ourselfs! > > LieGrue, > strub > > --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> From: Benson Margulies >> Subject: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether >> To: "Maven Developers List" >> Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 1:26 PM >> Af

Re: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Struberg
definitely -1 a EPL core dependency which once was part of maven core as long as there is no ALv2 alternative which we can bugfix ourselfs! LieGrue, strub --- On Sun, 7/17/11, Benson Margulies wrote: > From: Benson Margulies > Subject: [DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether > To: "Maven De

[DISCUSS] incorporate EPL Aether

2011-07-17 Thread Benson Margulies
After re-reading the ASF legal licensing policy, I'm starting this thread to formally propose that the Maven incorporate versions of Aether that are EPL without an AL dual-license. As per convention, someone can make a VOTE thread once voices have been heard here. EPL is 'Category B'. Binary redi