Giovanni,
The issue isn't so much which project but establishing a community
around the codebase; after that it's just "details" and that isn't
dependent on being an Apache project, sub-project or in incubation first.
So do email Jena as a means to the end of getting some people involved
in in interested sparqled - the Jena user list is probably the better
place as you reach more people.
Andy
On 01/07/12 23:48, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
thanks Andy for these comments. The thing about AGPL3 queries, wow
never thought of that :)
we'll clarify these aspects for the next version.
WRT to making it into an apache project, well most definitely i dont
see it as sufficiently related to any23 to make it part of it.
This could be much moreof interest to Apache Jena? maybe i should ask
on that list?
i feel such a newbie at successfully getting a project our as opensource. :)
i mean we have released several things before, but this one i really
care for it to be picked up.
Gio
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
Giovanni,
IANAL but one comment on SparQLed - you should probably state what the
license situation for any generated query in the same way that parser
generators or compilers do. They usually say "the output is not
licensed". I think that unless you do this, the output of the editor is
under the license of editor itself, which is currently AGPL3.
Other than that, I agree with Simone. If there is connection to Any23,
then the project can accept a software grant; if there isn't a separate
incubator proposal is cleaner.
You've said you are going to license under the Apache license - you
don't need to submit to Apache to do that. You can use the license now
- the details are given in the appendix to the ASL 2.0 license.
Andy
Giovanni,
I took a quick look at the github, and saw a JeniT tweet.
I see that "This software contains code from the Flint SPARQL Editor
project. " (IIRC that is an MIT license).
Other bits say: "This software is copyright Aduna" which is 3-cluase
BSD-type.
Also, "works supported by the European FP7 project LOD2 (257943)." --
presumably DERI have copyright but is it exclusive to DERI?
Whichever route is taken, this will need to be clarified and it's easier
sooner rather than later.
I don't immediately see any blockers. The third party copyright involved
needs handling correctly but the two I see are "Category A", and an Apache
project can include source code with the necessary text in NOTICE and
LICENSE files.
Andy
