There was an even earlier post, to Jakarta General, concerning this question of IP. I maintain, due to the volume of code and concepts that were copied out of (or adapted out of) Tapestry that WebCT would not win any kind of legal challenge to the ownership of the IP ... but it would be murky, based on my employment with them overlapping the development. The point is, by making them happy, the IP, ownership, copyright, etc., will be clearly owned by the ASF which is in the best interests of myself, the HiveMind project, the ASF and WebCT.
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Creator, Tapestry: Java Web Components http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry > > I've been trading drafts of the proposal and I think they are > > on the right track. I suspect we'll be going forward soon -- > > possibly today. > > I can't find in the archives where you've made the Jakarta PMC or the ASF > Board aware of this specific incident. When IP ownership issues arise on a > project, as you made this project aware on October 22 > (http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > che.org&msgId=1096118), it seems to me that either the PMC and/or the Board > ought to be directly brought into the loop. As you said, "fortunately, > nobody's out to cause trouble", but it could easily have gone the other way > (and it isn't resolved, yet). > > Robert Leland made the same comment to you on October 27th, about receiving > some guidance from the Foundation. Corporate software grants, such as the > one with BEA for XMLBeans, are certainly do-able. But for a PMC and the > Board to ensure proper oversight within a TLP and across the ASF, > respectively, they need to be made aware of when problems such as this one > arise. > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
