cool... the log4perl community is based at http://log4perl.sourceforge.net.
I'll keep looking to see if we can resolve these licensing issues. thanks dave -----Original Message----- From: Ceki G�lc� [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:59 AM To: Logging General Subject: RE: logging and log4perl Sure. We can do that. At 10:49 AM 3/31/2004 -0800, you wrote: >hmm... ok... sounds like licensing might kill this. > >would it be at least possible to link to the log4perl stuff from the logging >services website? perhaps under some title like "related non-asf software" >or something? > >dave > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ceki G�lc� [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:21 AM >To: Logging General >Subject: RE: logging and log4perl > > >Hi David, > >At 01:47 PM 3/30/2004 -0800, Viner, David wrote: > >Excellent. Thanks for the encouragement. From reading the notes on the > >incubator website, and the log4net example, here's what I can see as the > >steps: > > > >1. Log4Perl community submits proposal. > >Yes, that is the main hurdle. > > >2. Need to be nominated for incubation by a member of ASF. > >3. Need to be approved by a sponsor (Logging Services) > >I do not see a problem in this case. > > >http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html mentions this > >proposal, but doesn't specify what it should contain. Can I see the >proposal > >for log4net and use that as a template? > >Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it in due time. > > > >From reading the policy, it looks like the code is required to be: > > - hosted in CVS on apache.org > >absolutely. > > > - licensed under Apache Software license. > >absolutely. > > >Is hosting the code on sourceforge's cvs tree sufficient? or will we need >to > >move the code to apache's cvs? and similarly with documentation... will > >that need to move to logging.apache.org site instead of the it's current > >location? > >You have to move both the CVS and the docs. The whole things does not make >much sense otherwise, or does it? > > >The Log4perl code is currently licensed as > >"This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > >under the same terms as Perl itself." > >Is this compatible with ASL? or will we need to alter it? I believe perl >is > >distributed under the "Artistic license", but I have no idea the > >relationship between this and the Apache Software License. > >Hmm. Bummer. The ASF will not host anything which is not ASL licensed. So >the >license would need to be changed. I do not know how much of a problem >it is for the log4perl community but I know for sure that the ASF will >not accept anything not under the ASL, double licensing is also not >acceptable. I am sorry, that is just the way that it is. > > >Thanks. > >dave viner > >-- >Ceki G�lc� > > For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual" > ISBN: 2970036908 http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/clm_t.jsp -- Ceki G�lc� For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual" ISBN: 2970036908 http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/clm_t.jsp
