[resent from apache.org address] -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Subject: Re: Making Daffodil Replicator an Open Source : Suggestion > Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 13:10:17 +1200 > > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 05:20, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > Ashish Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We are a product based company named Daffodil Software Ltd, based in > > > India. We have developed many good products using JAVA out of which our > > > two premium product Daffodil DB (an RDBMS) and Daffodil Replicator > > > (database utility software) is largely accepted by world software > > > community. > > > > > > We are planning to make our Daffodil Replicator an open source project. > > > > > > How can we make it with www.apache.org please let us know how we have to > > > proceed. > > > > > > I visited at http://incubator.apache.org but unable to find the answer > > > how to proceed in order to make our product open source. > > > > I'm cross-posting to lists where there might be interest in helping you > > out on this. > > > > > www.daffodildb.com > > Hi Ashish, > > The following is just my personal opinion, as a member of the ASF > (Apache Software Foundation); I am not speaking on behalf of the ASF. > > I think it is great that you are considering releasing some of your code > under an open-source licence. I am sure there are a number of people > that are willing to offer advice on the process of releasing your code > as open-source. And if you do this, you are certainly welcome to reuse > the Apache Public License legal document as the base for the license > terms you release your code under; the ASF and its legal advisors > deliberately designed the license in a way that makes it easy for > non-ASF-hosted projects to use. > > However if you are suggesting that the code you release may be hosted > and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, I personally think > this is unlikely to happen. > > Firstly, the code you are considering releasing under an open-source > licence is an add-on to a proprietory product. The ASF is unlikely to > consider adopting that kind of project. This doesn't mean that making > the code open-source is a bad idea, it's just something that the ASF > usually avoids being involved with. > > Secondly when the ASF adopts existing code, the provider of the code is > expected to show evidence that there is a group of developers willing to > continue maintenance and development of the code in the future. Apache > doesn't want to end up hosting lots of code with no associated > developers. Given that the code you are considering releasing can only > be used with a proprietory database which does not have a large market > share, I think this will be a difficult thing for the Daffodil > Replicator project to demonstrate. > > If your replicator tool can actually replicate data for multiple > different brands of database then please let us know; that would make > the project much more interesting, and therefore more likely to obtain > an adequate pool of developers. In particular, if it could be used with > the IBM "CloudScape" product which has recently been offered by IBM and > accepted by the ASF (and to be renamed "Derby" I believe), there could > be significant interest. The result could well be an improved replicator > for both Derby and Daffodil - but only if the architecture of your > current code is not too tightly bound to the Daffodil database. > > If you are interested in discussing this further, then please describe > what Daffodil Software expects to gain by outsourcing this software. > There are a number of different open-source licences available, and > which one is appropriate depends upon the business strategy of Daffodil. > The ASF always uses the apache license, which is a "BSD-like" license, > but there are many successful open-source projects that use a different > approach. You may wish to investigate MySQL and JBoss as alternative > business models. > > As I am sure you are aware, the ASF is not the only way to make code > open-source. You can always host the source code and associated > development framework (newsgroups, email lists, etc) on your own site, > or use the SourceForge site. If you let us know a little more about the > business goals of Daffodil Software we may be able to offer better > advice. > > Disclaimer: No responsibility is taken for any consequences of you or > your company acting on any statements made in this email. > > Regards, > > Simon > > PS: Sorry for the wide cross-posting. Nicola's reply suggested this > topic may be of interest to all these groups.. > > PPS: Nicola, I hope Ashish is actually subscribed to one of the lists > receiving this email. If this is not the case, could you please forward > this email. Thanks.
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