James Duncan Davidson wrote: > > All Open Source licenses are based on Copyright > Law which is based on the concept of ownership. > *Somebody* has to own the code. In our case it's > the ASF Members.
Don't stop there. The owners have clearly laid out a process for making decisions, and posted it on the web at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html. Being primary author means you get to cast a vote, nothing more. Nothing less. In particular, I believe the following is a false assertion: > I think I've got a right to Ant's "vision thing". > Other visions are fine, but they aren't Ant imo. - Sam Ruby
