Niclas Hedhman wrote:
Warranty is not a problem;
As Sun expresses it; "This module, both source code and documentation, is in the Public Domain, and comes with NO WARRANTY."
That's IT. A single line.
see next comment.
Now you are somewhat confusing License from Ownership, and things are getting 'icky'. I am not revoking a license to the ASF, I am releasing my ownership of the asset. And since the Public Domain concept allows anybody to do anything, whatsoever, I (also IANAL) can't see any problem. Compare this with an EULA of a product that I by, only to find out 3 months later it is Free-of-Charge.
I'm not saying it has to be a problem. I'm just brainstorming here, tossing out ideas that might be issues to consider. I'm absolutely not trying to bring up roadblocks.
How is that today, irregardless of this effort? One could argue that we are not allowed to apply patches from users, without them submitting the CLA. Feel free to bring it up with the Board separately.
Actually this is covered in the ASL 2.0 but not in ASL 1.0. So it was an issue and was brought up before. I would only be really concerned if there was some large or significant patch submitted by a non-committer before 2.0 licensing. I don't think there are any for Merlin but I wanted to bring it up in case someone else remembers or knows.
Again, just brainstorming.
jaaron
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