Elford, Chris L wrote:
Hi Endre,
Hi Chris, thanks for taking the time to answer that rant!
In addition to providing a great license :-), Eclipse Foundation manages a set of open source projects... Kindof like Apache. For those projects managed directly in Eclipse, the foundation does IP review of any 3rd party content coming into the project.
As do Apache..
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know all the ends and outs and I don't know the exact set of checks that are performed. I do know the source code is reviewed via some mechanism though. Review depends on the source of the material but always happens EVEN for integration of components with a compatible license such as Apache.
The thing that I really found amazing is that this review have to happen for a project that already, AFAIU, was reviewed. As you wrote it, it seems like a full, new round of whatever has to happen on each and every check-in into Harmony's SVN. This is seriously weird, IMO.
Wouldn't it be possible for your legals to verify _Harmony_, and not just some specific SVN tag, and thus in effect set up some kind of trust-relationship between you two? Maybe with yearly reviews or something..?
Regards, Endre.
