Right. There are legal bits and policy bits entwined here. The ASF doesn't distribute software under licences other than the ASL. It's not a solid policy - but I doubt we'll ever stretch it to involve us shipping under strong copyleft licences. As with any group of 1000+ people, we don't agree on much, but we do largely seem to prefer the gift style of BSD licence (makes sense, wouldn't be here otherwise).
We can't legally change the licence on the code - so wouldn't be able to take a fork into Commons (for example). The original author(s) would need to relicence (to BSD/MIT/ASL equivalents), or we would need to start afresh. Cliff Schmidt has outlined a solid policy for us (http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html). It's still getting agreed upon (and argued upon), but now that I think about it, that actually would allow us to depend on JMimeMagic. We wouldn't be able to ship it with our fileupload binary etc, but we don't ship dependencies with our binaries anyway. Hen On 4/18/06, Brian K. Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
