On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Cutting wrote: >> >> There's no conspiracy here to steal Apacheness. Rather, Yahoo!, Intel and >> CMU would like to collaborate on open source software. Intel and CMU have a >> prototype, and Yahoo! is interested in helping to develop this further. All >> three believe that other parties will also be interested in this software. >> Apache is a good home for collaborative, open-source software projects, no? > > Here's the gist of the issue, and your email highlights it perfectly. > > Yahoo!, Intel, CMU etc have no standing at the ASF. The ASF does not > recognize collaborative "corporate" development; the ASF recognizes > collaborative development by physical persons, not other legal constructs > or amalgamation. > > In other words, I'll vote -1 on any Proposal for non-person entities > X, Y, and Z to form an incubator podling, and I know several other PMC > members who will do likewise. > > This looks like a very interesting technology, and when proposed as a > collaboration by actual persons A, B, and C (who happen to work for > X, Y, and Z) we will have something to discuss.
I really don't see what the problem is here, there are two named committers in the proposal. Whatever the interests of the companies they work for, Tashi will have to create a healthy community to graduate and I don't think corporate backing should be used as a reason to deny entry in the first place. Also its a *good thing* IMO that the proposal is open about the three companies that are prepared to fund work and I would hate to see that rewarded with a -1, since it may prompt others to be less open in the future. Niall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
