* This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
* individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation and was
* originally based on software copyright (c) 2001, Plotnix, Inc,
* <http://www.plotnix.com/>.
* For more information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see
* <http://www.apache.org/>.
Where typical apache code contains only:
* This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
* individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation. For more
* information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see
* <http://www.apache.org/>.
However, I can't imagine this would be the source of the problem since this project has been in CVS for over a year now (Aug 23, 2001), not 4 months, as Roy specifies. I should also note that it has had active participation by an Apache member (craigmcc), and on the plotnix website, there is the statement:
"JXPath was initially developed by Dmitri Plotnikov at PLOTNIX and then contributed to the Apache Jakarta project. The new home of JXPath is Jakarta Commons"[2]
And Dmitri Plotnikov is a committer here, actively developing JXPath.
Thus, I'm not sure this is the problem that Roy was referring to. That's why I asked Roy (and Ken Coar) on the reorg list to specify the problem[3]. I have yet to hear back.
Any other ideas what the problem may be?
regards,
michael
[1] For example,
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons/jxpath/src/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/AbstractFactory.java?rev=1.4&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
[2] http://www.plotnix.com
[3] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Costin Manolache wrote:
The following was posted by Roy Fielding:
"Just look at the commons cvs -- there is code present
that was taken from another open source project, the license removed,
and replaced with the committer's own copyright alongside that of the
ASF. That isn't just contrary to our guidelines; it is immoral!
And, it has been there for four months without anyone so much as
lifting a finger (not to mention deleting the module, which is what
I would have done). If that isn't cause to terminate an entire project,
I don't know what is."
This is a very serious accusation, and it seems other people are aware of this issue - yet neither jakarta-commons nor jakarta PMC have been informed ( at least to my knowledge ).
We may have too much traffic - or maybe people don't know
about [EMAIL PROTECTED], or maybe those who claim 'we don't
care' are right.
As you should know, it is our duty to review the code that
is checked in and make sure it respect some basic rules.
I think it is essential for us to find the code and find out how this happened and how it can be prevented in the future. Nothing is perfect - and it is possible that people don't understand the rules or just didn't think.
I can't find many excuses for whoever noticed and who knew about that and failed to notify the community or the PMC - and I include Roy here. But
that doesn't change the fact that we have a serious and major problem - I think it is our fault in the first place as commons commiters for letting such a thing happen.
Since I still can't find out what code he is reffering to - I would like
to ask for your support in identifying it ( and fixing the problem,
of course ), and then to discuss and try to find out solutions to avoid this in future.
Costin
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