Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-04-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Please note this is not an official statement on behalf of the foundation. If you need an official one, please contact the Apache Licencing Group at ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). These are only my thinking based on passed experiences and threads on that licensing@ mail list. Kevin O'Neill wrote: I

License and patching/forking (was: RE: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit)

2003-04-01 Thread Artur Bialecki
] Subject: Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit Please note this is not an official statement on behalf of the foundation. If you need an official one, please contact the Apache Licencing Group at ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). These are only my thinking based on passed experiences

RE: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-31 Thread Artur Bialecki
Hello all, I would like to see an official replay to Kevin's questions. Thanks, Artur... -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin O'Neill I understand your point and agree with it. I would like to however ask some follow up questions :). Say

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-29 Thread Sylvain Wallez
ivelin wrote: That is not the issue. We mean that a community member would discuss any perceived issue with their peers. You did not provide cocoon-dev with feedback or notify about a problem. Over the last few months I have asked multiple times when is 2.1 going to be labeled Alpha. Maybe

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-29 Thread Sylvain Wallez
ivelin wrote: The difference is that we all chipped in as part of the community to help finish the re-factoring. All that we heard from you was bleating from the sidelines, urging us to release a product that is not ready. You should probably speak for yourself instead of hiding behind we

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I have looked at the code you distribute and you are in clear violation of the ASF license and the ASF guidelines for these reasons: OK, I don't want to delve into whether Ivelin's move is right or not from a community POV (but yes, I do share

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 28/3/03 6:54 am, Kevin O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 03:07:01 +, Pier Fumagalli wrote: On 28/3/03 0:41, Gianugo Rabellino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing? org.APACHE... That name is protected by the license AFAIK, but am no lawyer at all...

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Torsten Curdt
Let me explain, maybe the goodwill will prevail. Otherwise this will turn into another example of a sad finish of an exciting jorney. snip/ I am sure goodwill is a main reason but some question come to my mind *) why don't you wanna share your thoughts with us and let us (or at least some of

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
ivelin wrote: So, Stefano, since you have your PMC chairman hat on, tell me if we can create an incubator project I will gladly commit the new code to it. If not, what other options do you suggest. You took part of cocoon and forked it. You didn't say anything about this, you just acted and

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Kevin O'Neill wrote: I don't believe that points 4 and 5 are violated by package org.apache.xmlform any more than the statement import org.apache.xmlform; the license precludes neither one of these things. There is a huge difference between package org.apache.xmlform; and import

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Torsten Curdt wrote: Let me explain, maybe the goodwill will prevail. Otherwise this will turn into another example of a sad finish of an exciting jorney. snip/ I am sure goodwill is a main reason but some question come to my mind *) why don't you wanna share your thoughts with us and let us

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
On 28/03/2003 5:22 Vadim Gritsenko wrote: What about creating an (experimental) branch for xmlform? That would be nice. Exactly. Then again, Ivelin is looking into making XMLForm independent from Cocoon IIUC from the freebuilder CVS. I don't know whether a branch would liberate him

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Geoff Howard
At 09:27 AM 3/28/2003, Ivelin wrote: On 28/03/2003 5:22 Vadim Gritsenko wrote: What about creating an (experimental) branch for xmlform? That would be nice. Exactly. Then again, Ivelin is looking into making XMLForm independent from Cocoon IIUC from the freebuilder CVS. I don't know

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
Let me explain, maybe the goodwill will prevail. Otherwise this will turn into another example of a sad finish of an exciting jorney. snip/ I am sure goodwill is a main reason but some question come to my mind *) why don't you wanna share your thoughts with us and let us (or at

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
I could be opening a can of worms here, but can I butt in and ask if this move was promted out of frustration with the somewhat messy build and samples refactoring? This played its part too. New Guy Geoff

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
Made the requested chages. Please verify if they work for ASF? -=Ivelin=- - Original Message - From: Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:16 AM Subject: Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit ivelin wrote: So

RE: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Sylvain.Thevoz
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit I've decided to extract XMLForm as a standalone toolkit in order to be able to faster develop experimental branches without affecting Cocoon. The plan is to merge more successful advancements back into Cocoon. Also

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using both XMLForm AND Cocoon functionalities. Does it mean that XMLForm won't be part of Cocoon (2.1) in the future? No, so don't worry. Stefano.

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
ivelin wrote: Made the requested chages. Please verify if they work for ASF? pmc-chair-hat-on Much nicer, but there are still a few issues: 1) you are shipping your code with the Apache Software License and you are granting copyright to the ASF for your stuff. This is still not acceptable for

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Kevin O'Neill
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:25:00 +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Kevin O'Neill wrote: I don't believe that points 4 and 5 are violated by package org.apache.xmlform any more than the statement import org.apache.xmlform; the license precludes neither one of these things. There is a huge

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread David Crossley
ivelin wrote: (And why did he not make any attempt to attribute who said what?) Someone said: I am sure goodwill is a main reason but some question come to my mind *) why don't you wanna share your thoughts with us and let us (or at least some of us) together steer the direction of

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread David Crossley
ivelin wrote: Steven Noels wrote: Exactly. Then again, Ivelin is looking into making XMLForm independent from Cocoon IIUC from the freebuilder CVS. I don't know whether a branch would liberate him sufficiently enough (which is if course not our concern). The goal is to be able to

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
That is not the issue. We mean that a community member would discuss any perceived issue with their peers. You did not provide cocoon-dev with feedback or notify about a problem. Over the last few months I have asked multiple times when is 2.1 going to be labeled Alpha. Maybe you did not

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
The difference is that we all chipped in as part of the community to help finish the re-factoring. All that we heard from you was bleating from the sidelines, urging us to release a product that is not ready. You should probably speak for yourself instead of hiding behind we all. It is by

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
pmc-chair-hat-on Much nicer, but there are still a few issues: 1) you are shipping your code with the Apache Software License and you are granting copyright to the ASF for your stuff. This is still not acceptable for the ASF guidelines since there is no proper legal oversight on what

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit (decoupling XMLForm?)

2003-03-28 Thread ivelin
Message - From: Bertrand Delacretaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit (decoupling XMLForm?) Le Vendredi, 28 mars 2003, à 17:58 Europe/Zurich, Bertrand Delacretaz a écrit : ...Then it might

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 28 March 2003 17:45, Pier Fumagalli wrote: On 28/3/03 6:54 am, Kevin O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. Products derived from this software may not be called Apache, nor may Apache appear in their name, without prior written permission of the Apache Software Foundation. It

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-28 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 28 March 2003 17:44, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I'm pretty sure that if I identified my namespaces with something like http://www.microsoft.com/whatever;, I would get their lawyers knocking on my doors even if, I'm sure, there is no license I signed or clicked-thru that prevented me

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Torsten Curdt
I've decided to extract XMLForm as a standalone toolkit in order to be able to faster develop experimental branches without affecting Cocoon. The plan is to merge more successful advancements back into Cocoon. Also, it can hopefully be a jumping board for beginners and smaller projects that are

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
PMC chait hat on: ivelin wrote: I've decided to extract XMLForm as a standalone toolkit in order to be able to faster develop experimental branches without affecting Cocoon. I have looked at the code you distribute and you are in clear violation of the ASF license and the ASF guidelines for

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I have looked at the code you distribute and you are in clear violation of the ASF license and the ASF guidelines for these reasons: OK, I don't want to delve into whether Ivelin's move is right or not from a community POV (but yes, I do share Steven and Torsten's

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 28/3/03 0:41, Gianugo Rabellino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing? org.APACHE... That name is protected by the license AFAIK, but am no lawyer at all... Plus, I believe that we have some board resolution implying that all code owned and copyrighted by the ASF must be stored and

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread ivelin
: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit On 28/3/03 0:41, Gianugo Rabellino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing? org.APACHE... That name is protected by the license AFAIK, but am no lawyer at all... Plus, I believe that we have

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
ivelin wrote: ... So, Stefano, since you have your PMC chairman hat on, tell me if we can create an incubator project. I will gladly commit the new code to it. If not, what other options do you suggest. What about creating an (experimental) branch for xmlform? Vadim -=Ivelin=-

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Kevin O'Neill
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 03:07:01 +, Pier Fumagalli wrote: On 28/3/03 0:41, Gianugo Rabellino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing? org.APACHE... That name is protected by the license AFAIK, but am no lawyer at all... I'm also not a lawyer but I find the statement worrying and if

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Steven Noels
On 28/03/2003 5:22 Vadim Gritsenko wrote: What about creating an (experimental) branch for xmlform? Exactly. Then again, Ivelin is looking into making XMLForm independent from Cocoon IIUC from the freebuilder CVS. I don't know whether a branch would liberate him sufficiently enough (which is if

RE: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Reinhard Pötz
Ivelin, From: ivelin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, let's do some constructive talking. You probably remember the endless threads that were started in the last few months regarding the complexity of Cocoon and the fact that it continuously misses its release dates. I am only

Re: [ANN] XMLForm as a standalone servlet toolkit

2003-03-27 Thread Steven Noels
On 27/03/2003 14:35 ivelin wrote: I've decided to extract XMLForm as a standalone toolkit in order to be able to faster develop experimental branches without affecting Cocoon. I find this sad and would like to see a real rationale, and how you 'plan' to recontribute 'advancements'. In case you