Hi,
I don't whats going on in Avalon land and to be honest I don't really care. I would guess that nothing has really changed in the two years or so since I was last involved and I guess that is sad but to be expected given the personalities. Merlin did contain material that was derived from works that I had copyright on and if that is still the case (which I expect it is) then this could be a problem.
I don't want to release anything into the public domain as that would make it impossible to disclaim any liability. Even if that was not the case there was large chunks of code that were derived from code in other places around Apache (ie Tomcat4/Catalina) and thus it was a combined work with other copyright owners. At a bare minimum Craig McClanahan (sp?) would also need to be approached. However as the work was combined at Apache you would need to get the approval of the Apache Board or whoever as legally I was using works licensed works off Apache rather than directly from Craig. This will be required for any artefact that has ever had multiple people work on it. Even if all this was fine and dandy I don't think I would actually go out of my way to help the Merlin guys given how nasty and unpleasant they have previously been towards me. I assume they must be continuing the duplicitious, manipulative and aggresive practices if they are no longer wanted at Apache.
In short; * Public Domain bad as no disclaim liability * "My" code is in Merlin * "My" code derived from other Apachde code * "My" code a combined work * Apache Board need to approve the "Public Domain"'ing of work anyways * I care little for Merlin developers
My suggestion would be to just fork the code elsewhere under the current license and continue working over there.
Cheers,
Peter Donald
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