https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52322
--- Comment #6 from William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> 2012-02-29 15:09:30 UTC --- To clarify, donation of the IP is *not* necessary. All that is needed is the licensing under the AL. The process is here; http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html and here is one example of how this played out for a particular submission; http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/httpd-mod_fcgid.html The license agreement to explicitly assign the ASF the license to these works would be here; http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt To further correct your misunderstanding, "dog in the manger" is not the issue here. There are hundreds of add-in modules for Apache httpd. Very few become 'core' modules in the primary distribution. Some dozen or so are also from the ASF (from httpd, tomcat, perl and other projects) and available as separate packages/releases. This is not for lack of (or disrespect for) user interest. In fact, the subprojects at httpd were initially created for edge cases which didn't have broad appeal, perhaps, but enjoy a narrow and active audience. Code is only entertained in core upon broad acceptance by the -developers- of Apache httpd, not so much its user audience, because those developers assume responsibility for the code. Primary antibodies in the process exist to target 'code dumps', wherein lines of code is dumped into a project without maintainers to follow through, and insufficient interest/attention of the other developers. Subprojects provide a channel for interested users to adopt modules very early in their ASF-lifespan, attract patches and improvements, and demonstrate that a group of maintainers has been established. The actual discussion of accepting these three submissions needs to return to dev@, I simply needed to correct your misunderstanding in comment #3, that this donation was not yet executed appropriately and therefore not yet accepted. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
