i'll do my best to present what (seems to me) a complex issue and currently unresolved by the board.
the question is whether:
1 apache distributions must contain only artifacts licensed under the ASF 2.0 (unless an exception is granted by the board)
or:
2 whether they may contain ASF compatible binaries that have their own licenses.
several senior ASF figures were of the opinion that 1 is acceptable since tarballed ready-to-run releases could be provided by downstream distributors, packagers and porters and that there is no reason why java should be treated differently. the problems that this approach would cause for java applications were pointed out and (i think) everyone learnt something. brian promised to go away and think about all the issues.
anyway, one thing which became clear to me is that jakarta could do a lot more to promote the acceptance of ASF java applications in mainstream packagers and ports. i think that part of this is to let users know that there are other options available (as well as the standard ready-to-run tarballs). that's why i proposed these links.
- robert
On 7 Apr 2004, at 04:34, Martin Cooper wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: robert burrell donkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:03 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: [site] thinking about adding a couple of links from resources
in the light of the recent debate over on licensing about the inability
for java folks to take their jakarta fix in the usual packaged/ported
*nix fashion
For the benefit of those of us not on licensing@, could you, or someone
else, summarise that debate briefly, please? That list doesn't appear to be
in public archives. (I'm on license@, which is publicly archived - I didn't
realise there were two separate lists.)
TIA.
-- Martin Cooper
, i thought i might add links to a couple of well-known downstream distributors of packages and ports to the resources (unofficial) section:
http://www.jpackage.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ports/java.html
comments anyone?
- robert
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