On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think this is an important topic for future incubator project groups > to have clarified. > > > "The project is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there > are at > > least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company or > > entity that is vital to the success of the project)" > > Perhaps the word "legally" needs to be removed since from the Qpid > discussion it would appear that several people do not think a strict > legal interpretation should apply? > > However, given that the intent (as I understand it) is to avoid the > case where a project dies because one entity withdraws funding, > perhaps some definition along the lines of "for people who are paid to > contribute to the project, no single entity remunerates more than 50% > of the committers"? > The thing is, for both for Qpid and Tuscany, there *were* 3 independent committers. And in the case of Qpid, I believe the "no single entity remunerates more than 50% committers" would have worked as well. Matthieu > Robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
