As for Jim's concern, I think commits can be redirected to commits@ list. -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://dataved.ru/ +7 916 562 8095
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:00 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a flag in the mail notification to turn of diff's in those emails. > So theoretically those emails don't have to include not even code fragments > of GPL licensed code. > So those emails could become what they initially should have been: Some > simple notification of activity. > > We are actually also not interested in what exactly has changed or > archiving external activities. > If anybody is interested in those projects he can catch up with those > involved there. > > All we are interested is a "heads up" there is something going on as we > provide integration APIs that 3th parties are using. > > There are also a number of more 3th party projects that send those pings. > Basically all projects hosted at apache-extras.org are configured to send a > ping to our list when there was a SVN commit. > http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/hosting/search?q=openmeetings > > It is argueable if an Apache developer list is the right place to have such > a "news aggregator" for activities around OpenMeetings. > There might be easy ways to resolve such a conflict. Possibly for example a > Google Group Mailing list. "openmeetings-apache-extras" or something like > that. It does in fact not make a difference, just another mailing list to > monitor :) > It is just a bit an imaginary line that we draw here from my point of view. > > Sebastian > > > 2013/3/21 Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> > >> IMO, it's inappropriate content for a dev@ list, which is >> a place to *discuss* development, not an "archive" for >> external development, legal issues notwithstanding. >> >> On Mar 20, 2013, at 7:16 AM, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I would be uncomfortable as well. If project members want to follow >> external projects that's great, but duplicating all of an external >> project's messages onto the public dev@ list is... not a best practice, >> to say the least. >> > >> > Personally, I'd have to presume (for the average user) that everything >> coming from that other GPL licensed project is GPL. Thus, this seems to >> violate the principle of least surprise and the fact that GPL is Category >> X, which means that end users should be able to use Apache projects and >> products without having to worry that GPL code is included - either in the >> download, or in other places on our websites or mailing lists. >> > >> > - Shane >> > >> > On 3/19/2013 6:51 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >> It's come to my attention that the openmeetings project has recently >> >> subscribed their dev list to the commit messages of a Google Code hosted >> >> project under the GPL. I asked why and was told " those updates are >> >> interesting for our integration API." There is some overlap in >> >> committers but the project communities do seem to be distinct other than >> >> this cross-posting of commits. >> >> >> >> I'm quite uncomfortable about this as it means that GPL code is passing >> >> through our lists (and being archived) without any clear indication of >> >> its legal status. What I'm not sure about is whether my discomfort is >> >> because of an irrational fear of someone inadvertently using GPL code >> >> without knowing it or whether that is, in fact, a rational fear. >> >> >> >> Advice please? >> >> >> >> Ross >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Ross Gardler (@rgardler) >> >> Programme Leader (Open Development) >> >> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >> >> >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > Sebastian Wagner > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > http://www.webbase-design.de > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > [email protected]
