Actually we had a similar discussion some time ago, and also related
to DataViews. Forking and relicensing is an easy option:
http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/lists/cayenne-devel/2007/04/0035.html
Whoever wants to work on a fork, I suggest you contact Adrian
Wiesmann (who is likely reading this list). I think he already did a
fork and placed it on SourceForge (?)
I disagree that Apache license as such is unfriendly to GUI projects
(at least I haven't heard any reasonable argument to back that idea),
but the fact that most existing libraries converged around (L)GPL
could definitely play its role as a high barrier to entry. Although
there are notable exceptions - JGoodies uses BSD license.
Finally I have no idea why people are so afraid to contribute to
Apache. There are no barriers, except for the ones that any
established project would have, namely that the people involved in
the project value their reputation built over the years, and
therefore require new contributors to go through the karma building
process, before giving them write access. I think that's very
reasonable.
Andrus
On Nov 3, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
There's nothing stopping you from forking a branch of DataViews.
However, you cannot change the license to LGPL.
On 11/3/07, Demetrios Kyriakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,
Since the Cayenne team is not very interested in DataViews, but
many users
are, the most simple solution to me looks to move DataViews to a
place where
users can contribute much easier.
Because of it's "patch" based contribution restriction, and
especially of
the long list of incompatible "licenses", I'm not sure if
Apache.org is the
best place to get help from users with as few as possible "barriers".
Also an important step would be to switch the license from Apache
to LGPL.
It seems that the Apache license is not too GUI friendly: just
looks how few
projects on Apache.org have GUI's and how many good GUI oriented
libraries
or tools are LGPL.
Any other ideas on what could be done to re-invigorate DataViews?
Thank you,
Demetrios.
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