In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ted Husted writes:
>And, oops, I just realized that I never promoted the working draft of
>the guidelines
>
>< http://jakarta.apache.org/site/proposal.html >
>
>to the top level of the site. Assuming that's still OK, I'll go ahead
>and do that.
>
>Perhaps I should also add the above as a "preamble" to clarify what we
>are really suppose to be doing here -- developing open source software
>the Apache way.
Great! I had already forgotten about the proposed guidelines document.
I think the preamble would be a good addition.
>I don't know if that's exactly true. Anyone can go off and start a new
>codebase based on any Apache product, but they are suppose to use a new
>name and their own copyright. An active codebase exists whereever people
...
>improve it, but the brand belongs to Apache. Once the brand is donated,
>I don't think the donation is revockable by anyone except the ASF.
I'm sure you're right. At any rate, I think making proposal.html more
visible takes care of the additional clarity I was looking for. It
captures the conclusions of previous discussions and provides a framework
for recording the conclusions of future discussions.
daniel
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