Re: Harmony Podlling Quarterly Report

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:26 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > On Jul 29, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 08:06 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> On Jul 29, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > >>> Why we > >>&g

Re: Harmony Podlling Quarterly Report

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Geir, On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 08:06 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > On Jul 29, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > When we started Harmony we all assumed that the FSF and ASF would talk > > out their differences about ASL and GPL in the long run and that we > >

Re: Harmony Podlling Quarterly Report

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Wielaard
Dear Roy, Of course I have "used my own brain" to read the licenses, thought about the incompatibilities and come to the conclusion that with a bit of good will on all sides we could probably come up with some legal hacks to circumvent the issues. And I am also surprized and frustrated that the co

Re: Harmony Podlling Quarterly Report

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Roy, On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:52 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Note, however, that the people crying about the community terms > are a bunch of idiots. They already require their contributors to > assign copyright to the FSF. As such, the mailing list discussion > is completely irrelevant t

Re: [proposal] Oscar OSGi Project

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:45 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > The license to review is the one in the specification documentation, > > which in essence says nothing other than the fact that you are NOT > > indemnified against IP claims, which is standard CYA by the OSGi > > Alliance. > >

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 06:42 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > My point here is not that the above is wrong. My point is simply that > these issues are hard. > > Nor do I mean to single out classpath. The ASF, for example, takes > equal care in evaluating dependencies, ensuring that projects that m

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 14:38 -0500, Paul Hammant wrote: > GPL code can can import BSD, MIT, X11, W3C (etc) code but cannot > currently Apache licensed. That may well be worked out with an > revision to the Apache Software License 2.0. > > BSD (etc) is not currently able to import GPL licens

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Doug, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 12:00 -0400, Doug Lea wrote: > I think the brilliance of Geir's move here is that all of > FSF, Sun, IBM, BEA, etc now have equal motivation to change > their licensing so that they can participate. I hope they all > do. If you reveal the secret plan, it isn't secre

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 00:26 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > But why bother to "work with others"? Why not just join the existing GNU > > Classpath and Kaffe projects and work within them? > > > Geir indicated in a reply to my earlier posting that there were > > no specific objections to the

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > I had hoped it would have more emphasized the fact that we would do > > everything in our power to work out the philosophical, legal and > > practical issues when reusing e

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 22:34 -0400, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > People working on Kaffe/Classpath are gonna advise us..see their names > on the proposal :) We (Apache Gump team) has been working with them > to make Kaffe/Classpath better for a while now > (http://brutus.apache.org/gump/kaffe/bui