OK, I have an actual concern too, that I could actually investigate
if we had proposed release artifacts :-)
What exactly is apacheds's use of bouncy castle code? My
understanding of the status of the bouncy castle jar situation is
that apache projects cannot redistribute bouncy castle jars due to
the patent licensing problems. (IANAL but my understanding is that
they ship code that infringes a software patent in the US but
apparently not in Australia where the jars originate) (I don't know
what it means but people say "IDEA algorithm")
Geronimo doesn't use the allegedly patented algorithm/code and we
resolved the situation by importing the non-questionable code into
geronimo and publishing our own jar. If apacheds doesn't need the
allegedly patented stuff we would be on much firmer ground to use the
geronimo-util jar (if we missed some needed code that is not
allegedly infringing I'll be happy to help add it). If apacheds does
need the allegedly patented code we may be in trouble.
thanks
david jencks
On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Hi dear ADS developpers, and users,
we are working on ADS 1.5 since, say, last july (when it has been
formaly named 1.1, and renamed to 1.5.0 in december). We have
arrived at a point where we think that this version, even if not
perfect, seems stable enough to deserve a release.
Many new features has been added, and we want to tag this version
so that we can handle bug repports more easily, help people working
on new features to merge with a new trunk, and also provide
starving users with a brand new version :)
Time to vote now :
[ ] +1 : let's release this beast !
[ ] 0 : I don't really care
[ ] -1 : I don't agree, we are not ready for a release
Thanks a lot !
--
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
