-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just be conscious of the fact that, with all open source projects, time is usually volunteer/as available/as the urge strikes. I wouldn't start to get anxious for a couple of weeks. (some take longer, but I'm anxious by then)
As for forking -> commons, remember licensing issues. GPL/LGPL != ASL. In order for ASL to come into the picture you'd have to not fork but start from scratch. IANAL, but that's how it's been presented before. Brian Mark wrote: > I have contacted the maintainer of jmimemagic. How long should I wait > before forking and trying to get acceptance into jakarta-commons? > > > On 4/18/06, Brian K. Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully they'll respond - that would definitely be the best route if > possible. > > During SF's recent CVS outage, I was informed (by another project's > developer who has worked with both) that their SVN setup was much easier > to deal with. > > Brian > > Henri Yandell wrote: >>>> Definitely - you can always redistribute LGPL/GPL with or without your >>>> changes, provided you adhere by the licence (which basically means >>>> provide the source). >>>> >>>> Always best to try and work with the original project of course - >>>> provided the original author is still reading email and they didn't >>>> host the project on a personal site (making it hard for you to do the >>>> same). >>>> >>>> That's one advantage of tigris/savannah/apache/sourceforge. Others can >>>> pick it up - shame Sourceforge is so damn slow :) Anyone tried out >>>> their SVN yet? >>>> >>>> Hen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFERTt/aCoPKRow/gARAglXAKDhTCQGXYZBkY3vVmA0ITqxFNWsZwCcCFvZ 7I6QAVcDGXKyfe2W3qbU/CA= =Qyna -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
