Jeff's question below about the legal relevance of PMC's is a good one. Does someone from the board have a definitive answer for this?
Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:03 AM Subject: Re: The organization of xml.apache.org > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:53:08AM +0100, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > [snip 1-vs-many PMCs] > > >>Then there's the legal stuff, which includes the visibility to the > > >>board, jar files, code without copyright, code with incompatible > > >>copyright, code with patent infringements, etc. > > > > > >Hmm.. anyone care to guess how m any patents Cocoon infringes? > > > > Ok, then let's not even try then, who cares, oh and while we're at it > > let's remove the PMCs, why are they needed, oh and the board too, oh and > > why Apache at all... get real, try to be constructive. If nobody cares, > > tell me what we should do to solve the problem instead of > > institutionalizing it. > > I'm suggesting that while the PMCs are worrying about the possibility of > a LGPL jar in CVS, Microsoft might be poised to wipe Apache off the map > with 0.00001% of its legal budget because Cocoon infringes some obscure > patent of theirs. > > This is a question about the legal relevance of PMCs in general, not > directly related to the current debate. I would personally like to know > whether PMCs are any use (legally) at all, before debating whether there > should be one or many. > > --Jeff > > > -- > > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - verba volant, scripta manent - > > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
