Re: [PROPOSAL] Thrift

2008-01-30 Thread Simon Kitching
Niclas Hedhman schrieb: > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 15:24, Mark Slee wrote: > >> What we'd really >> like to set up here is a system where there are different people with >> committer priveleges to different parts of the project. >> > > Hmmm... I would oppose this for two reasons; > > 1

Re: moving a failed incubation project

2008-01-23 Thread Simon Kitching
Niall Pemberton schrieb: > On Jan 23, 2008 7:23 AM, Paul Fremantle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Niall >> >> Asking someone politely to rename the package is hardly throwing our >> weight around. >> > > Well you were talking about "need to change the package name" and > "rigorous protecti

Re: moving a failed incubation project

2008-01-23 Thread Simon Kitching
Janne Jalkanen schrieb: >> very much agreed and I guess if one can show a migration path (as I >> have suggested) which doesn't break too much, then I think nobody >> should mind renaming the packages. >> >> But with the ASF member hat on I think the package org.apache.* is >> something which the

Re: moving a failed incubation project

2008-01-22 Thread Simon Kitching
Michael Wechner schrieb: > Paul Fremantle wrote: > >> I agree with the general point about the legality of using the >> org.apache namespace. However, I think there is a significant issue >> here. People assume that org.apache code is from Apache. >> > > > agreed. Hence I would also suggest that wh

Re: moving a failed incubation project

2008-01-22 Thread Simon Kitching
I don't know anything about the legal side, but it would seem to me to be quite unacceptable to publish new releases with org.apache.* namespace. That namespace belongs to the ASF, and users will expect that anything published under that namespace has the approval of the ASF. So if development of

Policy re importing non-APL source into apache svn

2008-01-14 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, Sorry for this simple question, but I cannot find an answer on the incubator site pages. Is a project under incubation allowed to import its existing sources (not under the Apache license) into the Apache svn? And after graduation from the incubator, is it ok for the svn history to still show

Re: SVN repository disappeared?

2005-07-20 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:04 -0600, Martin Sebor wrote: > Heidi Buelow wrote: > > Did anyone else notice that the svn repository seems to have > > disappeared? > > > > Yes, something bad seems to have happened to the SVN repos. > I haven't been able to get to svn since sometime between 10 > and 11

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Beehive into a TLP

2005-07-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 05:01 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > Discussions regarding the Web Security situation on legal-discuss have > > revealed that IBM have provided a "patent license" to Apache for this > > particular project. However, in the opinions of at least one lawyer, > > any > > deriva

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Beehive into a TLP

2005-07-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 03:19 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Simon Kitching wrote: > > Could someone please provide information on any patents known to apply > > to this project? > > No, damnit. That is not how patents work! If we are notified o

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Beehive into a TLP

2005-07-14 Thread Simon Kitching
(I don't subscribe to legal-discuss, but I presume the discussion in > question is wrt WSS4J?). > > On 7/14/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 7/12/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear Incubator P

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Beehive into a TLP

2005-07-14 Thread Simon Kitching
> On 7/12/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Incubator PMC, > > > > I believe Beehive is ready to function as a standalone PMC. Please > see > > the latest status at: > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/beehive.html Could someone please provide information on any

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:52 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > Sorry, the previous email was sent incomplete. I'll try again.. > > On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:45 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > Simon Kitching

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Sorry, the previous email was sent incomplete. I'll try again.. On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:45 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > > > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an > > ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? > > Not at all. Individual authors may contribute their ow

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:04 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > [snip] > > Suggestion: the way to encourage people to move to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is to stop responding to > questions posted here. > > It only encourages them. I'm happy to ask future questi

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
re working in parallel with FSF folks on > the licensing issues as well for while now. Please see the FAQ as > well. we are gonna leverage every bit of code and expertise that we > can to make this happen. > > -- dims > > On 5/6/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 19:23 -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> How does SWT relate? > > > > It really doesn't. I think of it as an extra-J2SE application API. > > > > But there has been quite a bit of back and forth about SWT and Swing so > > this

Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, Can someone clarify for me why Harmony is being proposed when GNU Classpath, Kaffe and other projects are quite a long way to satisfying the goal of a Free Java environment? Is it: * That SUN is not expected to ever grant a free license to run the TCK for a GPL-licensed project, so the only

Re: RE:Making Daffodil Replicator an Open Source : Suggestion

2004-08-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 01:13, Ashish Srivastava wrote: > Hi, Hi Ashish, > > Thanks for the informative mail. It did go a long way in bettering my > understanding with regards to The Apache Software Foundation. > > However, based on your feedback, the following come to my mind: > > >Firstly,

Re: Making Daffodil Replicator an Open Source : Suggestion

2004-08-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 05:20, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Ashish Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are a product based company named Daffodil Software Ltd, based in > > India. We have developed many good products using JAVA out of which our > > two premium product Daffodil DB (an RDBMS) and Daff