Hi Dennis;
There is never actually such thing as "the voice of the project". We have
our reasons for choosing a license and it's healthful to explain it's
advantages but, at least in the US, in order to give legal advice you
have to be a lawyer so it's understandable that the ASF has to step
and clarify that opnions are not legal advice in any form.
This said, the project is sufficiently open that you do not need to ask to
this list who wrote the page or who is the target audience: you can look
up the commit history and you will notice that it has only been touched
by ASF members (and PMC members). I would expect the PMC has
consensus (even if lazy) on that.
Now as a side note, and just IMHO, both candidates for AOO chair fail
to fulfill what I consider a fundamental requisite for being the next PMC
chair: someone wanting to be the PMC chair should already be in the PMC.
According to [1]
"The*/Chair/*of a Project Management Committee (PMC) is appointed by the
Board
from thePMC Members
<http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc-members>."
Yes, I know the PMC can do workarounds and bring someone new to the PMC
but *hey* ... people in the PMC have responsablities: you guys shouldn't lay
those on people external to the PMC that are not up to date with what is
going
on within the PMC *today*.
I would also expect that candidates that run for PMC chair will be
willing to
serve in the PMC and support whomever is elected from within the PMC or
else this process doesn't really make sense (again just IMHO).
Pedro.
[1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#management
