I just wanted to quickly brief you about my talks with some board peeps so far on this matter + my personal thoughts. Some of this can be followed on the licensing list for those whose subscription is moderated through.
Looking at the situation, I think the impasse is much bigger than it seems at first sight. While Chris' fork is perfectly legal, integrating the source into Cocoon CVS is a different thing:
- it is not in the interest of the Cocoon TLP to host a Javascript engine implementation - and I think the ASF board has a perfectly good point there
- we can not simply relicense Chris' fork without a proper donation and transfer from the Mozilla peeps (which might or might not work out)
- Roy & Brian insist on exploring all possible options to remerge the changes into the proper Rhino codebase
- if we succeed at this, we could explore the possibility of moving rhino++ (with our continuations stuff added to the 'real' codebase) from mozilla.org to ASF (but not to Cocoon) - which might attract a community and could be a good thing for rhino itself
I'm busy ATM, but will report back if I have more news.
Cheers,
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
