I know it would be a smop to implement a simple mail sender, but javax.mail does much more and I didn't think Ant was the place for this.
Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd be interested in seeing if anyone wants to start up a project to implement javamail under the apache umbrella
At 11:58 AM 6/24/00 +0200, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > jhunter 00/06/23 19:46:18 > > Modified: . build.xml > Added: src/main/com/oreilly/servlet MailMessage.java > Log: > Added MailMessage. Hope people don't mind that I left it in > com.oreilly.servlet.
Sorry, but I do.
We have been preaching for years now that all java code donations to the ASF must:
1) contain the Apache license "only"! 2) have a org.apache.* package name
> I did that since it's going to be a mirror > of what's in the larger com.oreilly.servlet package.
We don't mirror stuff, Jason. We try to develop and maintain it. If you donate that code to us, we are free to do whatever we want with it and development will take place. If you mirror you fork your code: are you sure this is what you want to happen?
NOTE: don't get me wrong, I _very_ appreciate your contributions and I'd love to have all that nice org.oreilly.servlet code under our umbrella, but we have being following this package-change practice and I picture this very unfair about other projects that had to change their package naming to adapt.
> I put > it under the Apache license of course, and added the ASF as an > additional copyright holder.
Again, this is unusual and unfair for the other donated projects. All donations imply that you move copyright to the ASF which provides legal coverage for you. You should place all the credit issues you want after the
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in the license.
> Code can have two copyright holders, > meaning either party can do as they wish with the code. This lets > the ASF upgrade to Apache License 1.2 sometime in the future, and > lets me be able to use the code without thanking the ASF for code > I wrote. :-)
There is something _very_ different between deserving credits for something and a copyright statement. These are totally different things around here.
People and companies like IBM, Sun, James Tauber, Kevin Burton, James Davidson, Jon Stevens, Donald Ball, Ricardo Rocha, myself and many others are people that wrote projects or piece of projects on their own and _donated_ them to the ASF, giving copyright to the ASF while keeping credits for themselves.
Now, why should you differ?
Again, please, don't get me wrong: you know how strongly believe in giving full credits to who deserves it and I completely understand how important is recognition and visibility in our world. On the other hand, we have been following practices that are fair and cover all these issues nicely, allowing all software development to take place around here and all package naming to integrate seemlessly, giving the idea to users that we are all a big family of collaborating projects.
So, again, while I fully appreciate your code donation, I'd like to kindly invite you to rethink about your licensing issues now that you know these things.
Thank you very much.
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