Ok I understand. The problem is for commercial products based on Eclipse. I forgot that.For plexus it's annoying but it mustn't be to difficult to solve. The number of committers is limited and the major part is in the maven's team.
good luck Arnaud On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Abel Muiño <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Arnaud HERITIER wrote: > > > > No it's not the case.I often find Apache processes heavy,, but if in > > eclipse > > you have to validate all dependencies I better understand why its quality > > is > > lower day after day. All teams are probably checking their dependencies > > instead of writting tests. > > > > I think there is a misconception about the Eclipse Process and how heavy it > is. > > We have checked a sheer number of dependencies and, so far, the only > problem > is with Plexus. The ip-team takes care of everything for us, so it is just > a > matter of getting in the mental state to file a bug report stating what you > will use. > > However, the case of the embedder is a very speciall one, given the number > of dependencies required from so many different sources, and the lack of > information about its licensing terms or process in a few of them. > > The intent of the Eclipse Process is that commercial tools can be built on > top of eclipse projects and, given that the Plexus license page [1] states > that "No project license is defined for this project.", I can understand > that the legal team is worried. > > [1] http://plexus.codehaus.org/license.html > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Abel Muiño <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Ok, sorry for the noise then... I thoght that Apache would somehow review > > the > > code from third parties before distributing it (that's the Eclipse way). > > > > > > Brian E Fox wrote: > > > > > > Plexus is a codehaus component, so Apache would most likely not have > > these > > > checks. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Abel Muiño [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:18 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Code provenance checks for Plexus components > > > > > > > > > The Eclipse legal team is having a hard time trying to confirm code > > > provenance for the plexus components required by the 3.0 maven > embedder. > > > > > > I suppose that the Apache Foundation has already done similar > provenance > > > checks before distributing the components... so can you please help us > > > with > > > the Eclipse review? > > > > > > Specifically, the legal team has asked: > > > ··· > > > > > > > > >> For example, it would be helpful to know whether Plexus project > members > > >> and > > >> contributors are asked to acknowledge anything regarding their > > >> contribution in > > >> an e-mail (e.g. I wrote the code, it's mine, and I'm contributing it > to > > >> Plexus > > >> for distribution under the Apache 1.1 or Apache 2.0 license). > > >> > > > ··· > > > > > > Does such thing (or anything similar) exist? Does Apache keep some > > records > > > regarding the 3rd party checks it performs before a release? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > ----- > > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/amuino Abel Muiño Vizcaino - > > > http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > > > > > http://www.nabble.com/Code-provenance-checks-for-Plexus-components-tp22251436p22251436.html > > > Sent from the Maven Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/amuino Abel Muiño Vizcaino - > > http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://www.nabble.com/Code-provenance-checks-for-Plexus-components-tp22251436p22252875.html > > Sent from the Maven Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > Arnaud > > > > > ----- > http://www.linkedin.com/in/amuino Abel Muiño Vizcaino - > http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Code-provenance-checks-for-Plexus-components-tp22251436p22260868.html > Sent from the Maven Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Arnaud
