Excellent. It took me about 15 minutes to prepare this audit. Because I take my responsibility as a:
member (including my oversight responsibility) Jakarta PMC member committer developer POI-person good citizen of the Apache community seriously, I intend to perform this audit at least quarterly. I'll always have them available on the wiki page so that my peers can review them: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?JakartaPOIAudits I've also created this page: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ASFAuditPages for others who wish to do the same. I expect to get a softer pillow out of this. Meaning because I know that I've done my work and that my peers have reviewed it, I know that POI won't be shut down due to liability concerns, that the Apache project's furture is protected and that non-member committers to POI can rest assured that we've done our best to protect their contribution. I intend to invite other POI committers to either perform the audits or collaborate on them (since its 15 minutes work I imagine the first will be more common). This will help prevent the "ya ya" effect of form-filling/cutting-pasting. I invite anyone who has a question about the audit or is interested in how to apply the same on their project to please write. I'll do my best to answer any questions. Thanks, Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: Jakarta POI audit. > Martin van den Bemt wrote: > >>In summary, there are no controversial licensing issues for the Jakarta > >>POI project itself. The only area of question is whether Centipede's > >>use of LGPL libraries and POI's use of Centipede as a build tool > >>constitutes a problem. We are eager to resolve this in the event the > >>board sees this as a problem. It is our preference to continue using > >>checkstyle unless there is an actual legal issue. > > > > (Not looking at centepede here) : POI can even use GPL for building. > > There is an exception when a buildtool adjusted the content of the thing > > it processes (don't get me on legal stuff here though :). It is written > > down in the gpl fag on fsf.org. > > httpd else would have to be gpl too, since it may use gpl'ed buildtools > > to get it build, which is clearly not the case. > > Agreed. > > - Sam Ruby > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
