Sorry for the late response.

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:13 +0100, Guillaume Nodet wrote:
> Why such a restriction ?

Because ServiceMix is a project under incubation at ASF. That means its
not an official product of the ASF and as such has to be made clear that
its not. If you put it in as part of an official release then that
clarity is gone.

> I do not understand, as all the dependencies in Geronimo are not at 
> Apache -- yet ;) --,
> what is the difference with an incubating project ?

See above.

> A few monthes ago, ServiceMix was hosted at Codehaus and was integrated 
> in Geronimo.
> Now that it is incubating, this is not possible anymore ?
> Could you please explain the reasons behind ?

Geronimo can take dependencies on any license-compatible bits of
external code. That's not what we're talking about - the issue is the
status of this bit of code in ASF.

I know it must be frustrating .. but its the "price" of getting to be an
official project of the ASF. As you know, the graduation requirements
are not related to code quality or anything technical, but more about
the community and process. Until those conditions are satisfied,
ServiceMix is not an official product of the ASF.

Sanjiva.

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