Re: FeedParser in CVS with Atom Support (migrate to Jakarta Commons)

[Kevin A. Burton]

Noel J. Bergman wrote: Kevin, are you the sole author of the code? Was it a work-for-hire? You wrote that "Our lawyers have finally had a chance to review the Apache Public License and contributors documents (long story short they had no problems)." Who is "Our"? "Our" is a company called Sofari (working name) that I've recently founded.  The legal documentation has been signed by our CEO and mailed to the ASF.  IS there anything else I need to do?  hope not... :) I ask those questions in terms of the IP ownership. I see that all of the files are copyright to Sofari. I cannot locate a reference to "Sofari" as a corporate entity, but peerfear.org is registered to you. The copyright attribution will change once the code migrates into Apache.  The only reason the copyright remains is due to lazyness on my part. FAIK since it needs a donation document signing it should probably go through the incubator. Grey area. If there is a company involved that isn't Kevin's sole proprietorship, it would be best to get a software grant. If the code is exclusively Kevin's with no company (what is Sofari?), then it should be covered by Kevin's CLA. I've already signed and mailed the corporate contibutors agreement... done this before ;) Similar. External codebase. The author was not a committer. Provided a software grant (and was made a committer by the Avalon PMC during the interim), and had the code reviewed (preliminary review found GPL dependencies that were removed). Went into an existing codebase with ASF Committers waiting for it. All in all, seems a worthwhile and easy thing to do. The RSS code could be handy in several projects (possibly something in James, possibly in OpenIM, etc.). .. and a lot more... RSS/Atom and aggregation is going to explode in 2004. However you guys want to move forward is fine.  The incubator does seem like a lot of politics though.  Not something that I'm excited to do.  One reason I wanted to move it into the commons is so that I could easily make rapid progress, attract other developers, and then come up with a more formal plan when we approach 1.0.  Does it make more sense to assign the copyright over and then put it into the sandbox? I'm planning on posting this to a lot of RSS/Atom development communities so I need a place for us to focus our development efforts... Also... who can I talk to about a reset of my [EMAIL PROTECTED] passwd?  I recently blew a disk with all my SSH RSA keys and I've since forgot the passwd to that account. Kevin -- Please reply using PGP: http://peerfear.org/pubkey.asc NewsMonster - http://www.newsmonster.org/ Dean in 2004! - http://blog.deanforamerica.com/ Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 4D20 40A0 C734 307E C7B4 DCAA 0303 3AC5 BD9D 7C4D IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster

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