For some reason this message from Bertrand didn't go through
moderation (unless I am no longer moderator??)
I am manually forwarding it on for now until we can figure out whats
wrong with moderation
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Bertrand Delacretaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 24, 2008 12:12:27 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fwd: failure notice
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, looks like my message cced to [email protected] didn't
make it, or will it be moderated through?
-Bertrand
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM
Subject: failure notice
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Ate,
Thanks very much for your detailed reply. I'll comment on what's
specific to the incubating status.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Ate Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...The problem of course is that WSRP4J still is in incubation and
to be honest
hasn't seem much activities for some years now.
Part of the reason in my view (and possibly a big one) is the
*still* fuzzy
state of potential patent claims on WSRP 1.0....
Does that patent issue mean that an ASF release of the WSRP4J would
not be safe from a legal point of view?
Or is it just that users might be afraid of using it?
...We are in a kind of limbo here though: without proper developer
and
community support how can it ever get out of incubator?...
Assuming the legal issue can be worked out, would the portals PMC be
prepared to "adopt" the WSRP4J code and maintain it in the future?
...If we can get a resolution on these legal issues soon, the state
of the
project could be improved a lot in a short time (its not *that* big a
project to be honest), which I think then definitely will result in
a much
more interested and growing community (there is a large group of
silent
subscribers to the wsrp4j lists)....
Do you have pointers to discussions on our legal lists (Message-Id
would do), so that interested people can get more details?
-Bertrand
