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 > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
