Werner Guttmann wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> > [lots of content snipped]
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> > Yes and no. Exolab/Intalio certainly started the project, and the Castor
> > JDO project leader is from Intalio, but the rest of the JDO
> > committers/contributors are not from Intalio. I really believe the
> > community can control for the most part the direction of Castor JDO.
>
> Can you please give one or two examples where you think the community can *not*
> control the direction of Castor ?
That's a very difficult question to answer. To be direct, the current
committers are the only ones with actual CVS write access. So in the
end, patches and enhancements must be commited by those with write
access. So the committers must agree that the changes are actually
beneficial to the community in general before committing them.
If the many users really want a feature and someone is willing to write
and test the feature, then I see no reason why it would not be accepted.
On the other hand if one person writes a patch and the patch is highly
specific to the individuals case, it might not be accepted. The patch
can be made available to the public via the list or any other means the
user may have at his or her disposal however.
However, in both of these cases the community is really controlling the
direction, because user-demand or user-non-demand can cause features to
be accepted or rejected.
In the end however, the decision will ultimately come from the
committers. A reason will always be given for not accepting a patch and
the community can comment about whether they agree or disagree.
>
> I think that most of the people here on the list willing to contribute will have
> a need to understand what the limitations are, and
> whether any (substantial) progress can be made without being 'overruled' by Intalio.
This is a common misconception. If you look at the committers list you
will notice many non-Intalio committers. Intalio doesn't control Castor.
Intalio can control what Thomas, Arnaud, and I work on during work
hours, but they don't control Castor. Many of my contributions come
after hours...as you can see it's 4:00am as I write this e-mail!
Also if you look at the contributors list you will find far more
non-Intalio contributors than Intalio ones.
I think any reasonable patch that is well tested will be checked into
the CVS.
> I think it all comes down to what license Castor JDO currently has and will have in
> the future.
The license won't change. It's very liberal. It's a BSD style license
that has very few restrictions and nothing that prevents Commercial or
private use.
The license is available with the source code, binary distributions as
well as on the website:
http://castor.exolab.org/license.html
--Keith
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