RE: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-10 Thread Danny Angus
Sam, Noel, everyone.. With respect to dnsjava and mm.mysql, my understanding is that we had indeed received such alternate licensing. Perhaps this needs to be made more clear somewhere. If they issued a separate license for everyone to use, then I see no record of this on

Re: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Danny Angus wrote: With respect to dnsjava and mm.mysql, my understanding is that we had indeed received such alternate licensing. Perhaps this needs to be made more clear somewhere. If they issued a separate license for everyone to use, then I see no record of this on their website. If

Re: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-10 Thread Martin van den Bemt
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:46, Sam Ruby wrote: MySQL have indicated to me that they do intend to provide (or consider providing) specific less restrictive licences to certain groups, and that jakarta would likely be one, but I haven't heard any more, and until then the last release of

RE: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-10 Thread Danny Angus
I would, of course, pass this on as even a specific licence for Apache may not accord with either the ASFL or distribution of the driver by our mirrors. FWIW I believe that I summarised this on general@jakarta at the time, but perhaps not. The net affect of such a license

Re: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-08 Thread Sam Ruby
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Sam, We've been discussing the jar licensing, and want to check: do we have an action item TODAY, or do we wait for the board meeting to provide formal guidance? If I am correct in presuming that you are looking over James's assets, then you have no action item from me

RE: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:11 To: Noel J. Bergman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Action items now or after board meeting? Noel J. Bergman wrote: Sam, We've been discussing the jar licensing, and want to check

Re: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-08 Thread Sam Ruby
Noel J. Bergman wrote: We do have the ASL license in our CVS. What we don't have is a copy of it in the particular directories that contain the builds of Avalon jars that we're using. What is the specific requirement? And is it really true that if the license is embedded in the jar file, that

RE: Action items now or after board meeting?

2003-02-08 Thread Noel J. Bergman
If you believe that people would reasonably expect to find the license in the jar file, then I would say this complies. No, I don't. As I said, there is a copy of the license in the James CVS root. The question was whether there needed to be copies co-located elsewhere in the structure where