Re: PPMCs and oversight

2004-01-01 Thread Phil Steitz
A couple of times on this thread, Berin and others have pointed out that "regular status reporting" is not all that incubating projects need. I think that this is an important point. The ever-present, never-defined "oversight" term seems to imply more of an event interface -- "raise issues," "

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread Leo Simons
Hi Matt, (IANAL) Matt Liotta wrote: Thanks for all the responses. At this point, I am reluctant to release the code under an Apache style license without a community behind it. I don't want to see our code go into some proprietary project and never benefit the community because the actual ope

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread David Jencks
While I certainly appreciate your concerns about releasing under a bsd/apache style license without a community, please also consider the difficulties of relicensing. If you change the license from [L]GPL to bsd/apache, you will need to get something like written agreement from every contribu

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Jeudi, 1 jan 2004, à 17:57 Europe/Zurich, Matt Liotta a écrit : ...Right now my thinking is that we will release the code under the GPL and put it up on Sourceforge Note that you can use an Apache-like license on SourceForge. The chaperon and jfor projects, for example, are hosted there b

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread Matt Liotta
Thanks for all the responses. At this point, I am reluctant to release the code under an Apache style license without a community behind it. I don't want to see our code go into some proprietary project and never benefit the community because the actual open release was handled incorrectly. Rig