One issue that I did want to address:
Steven Noels wrote:
I'm intrigued though by the questions you receive about Jisp from the Apache side: do these originate from Cocoon users? While Jisp is considered a core (though switchable) part of Cocoon (it's the default of two cache implementations), its existence is shielded from the passing eye of a normal user. Also, we would expect that Jisp issues within Cocoon would be reported on the Cocoon lists, which happens, but not regularly enough to suspect people to come and nag you directly. Or is it because of other ASF projects using Jisp?
I don't know the precise origin (within the Apache framework) of the questions; I do know that, since last fall, three separate companies contacted me about Jisp, based on their discovery of it in the Apache code base.
In one case, the company paid me a small amount to help them try to win a contract with a Big Bank; their bid failed, though not due to Jisp. They used Jisp for a purpose similar to that of Cocoon.
The other two companies approached me with similar propisitions; for some reason both were incapable of some rather simple extensions of Jisp required for their own commercial projects. Since both were in a rush, and I'm always looking to make new customers, I jumped in and wrote what they asked for; neither paid me, and one was quite rude about the affair.
After the above experiences, I relicensed Jisp under the GPL.
I am open to being convinced that another license would be more beneficial.
..Scott
-- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing
