If I'm not mistaking aren't the guidelines APL'd?  Hence you can use them
provided you give credit and don't advertise your guidlines as Apache, or
Apache Jakarta or Apache Jakarta Guidelines? ;-)




>On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:47:00  0100 Mark Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote.
>Hi there,
>
>Our company is at the point of starting an Open Source project for one
>of our Jini/Java projects. We are now in the process of writing our
>License and Community Guidelines.
>
>After studying and working with some Open Source guidelines we feel the
>ones applied by the Jakarta Project are the ones we would like to adopt. 
>As I found out, being a non native English speaker, rewriting a sound
>piece of guidelines in your own words is a non trivial task. Just screen
>scraping the Jakarta Guidelines without permission, and changing were it
>needs to be changed for our particular situation, wouldn't seem the
>right thing to do.
>
>Therefore I ask whether the Jakarta project would mind if we adopt the
>Guidelines and represent it on our site in a way somebody familiar with
>Jakarta would say "hmmmmm, that looks familiar, were have I seen this
>before ...".
>
>Of course proper credits will be given. Something that will be given
>anyway, for our project makes use of the various Jakarta subprojects.
>
>Please let me know whether you object against 'Open Guidelining' ;-)
>
>Regards,  
>-- 
>Mark Brouwer
>
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