I feel a bit attacked for no reason really (regarding the barbs thrown
in my direction). It has been some time since I have not been rather
civil on this list and I would expect the return courtesy. I've always
tried to make a good faith effort with regards to POI. I have never
supported (and voted against) the other jakarta flattening thing and at
the time it was disingenuously provided (I never reversed my -1 vote you
just ignored it). Originally if memory serves (like 5 yrs ago) the
legal issue came from our mentor into Jakarta (Stefano Mazzocchi) and
following that based on some early issues with legal stuff that was a
real thread and some real concerns and scenarios (some of which has to
do with an individual that did become a very spirited contributor
elsewhere). That stuff should not be vetted publicly and probably not
on the PMC list.
We very nearly did have a REAL problem in the past that would have put
the project and the ASF in jeopardy and steps were taken to require a
personal assurance.
I still have no personal desire to have the same people who brought me
commons automatically in POI.
I would like to see a formats.apache.org project which was devoted to
Java/Ruby/C# APIs for office software file formats and more. However I
don't wish to be chair. I would support nick as chair though and lend
him what assistance I can.
With the launch of Buni (http://buni.org) my time for repeating votes
every few months because you're a sore looser while throwing barbs at me
is seriously limited. I do however welcome constructive
good-intentioned dialog
-Andy
Nick Burch wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Henri Yandell wrote:
Back when I joined POI, I was told the apache legal team had
suggested the
requirement.
Perhaps one of the older POI committers can supply the original
details?
My understanding is that the advice is from Andy's personal lawyer
many moons ago, maybe before POI joined the ASF.
OK, I'm happy to be corrected :)
Assuming the Apache legal team are happy with us dropping the
requirement (which I take from Martin's email that they are?), then I
don't see why we couldn't drop the restriction.
I'm all for getting more Jakarta participation in POI, and more POI
participation in the rest of Jakarta. That said, I think I'll wait for
Andy's response before I formally switch to a +1
Nick
(I am from POI)
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