On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:18 +0100, Ortwin Glück wrote: > > Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > Folks > > > > I just discovered someone at Geronimo had been copying verbatim various > > classes from HttpClient 3.x and developing some kind of async HTTP > > client on top of Mina. > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient/src/main/java/org/apache/ahc/auth/ > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient/src/main/java/org/apache/ahc/util/ > > > > I understand it is perfectly okay from the legal standpoint but I am not > > feeling too happy that a fellow _Apache_ project lifting bits of out > > code without _even_ notifying us. > > > > Am I over-reacting? > > > > Oleg > > Well, "lifting" may be a strong word.
Odi, whatever word one may choose to describe this, copying verbatim large amounts of code in order to donate it to a _competing_ project is just _not_ okay. At least in my books. Oleg > But IMHO they could have worked > together with the HttpClient team on this to get their changes merged. > Just copy/paste and then tweak is certainly not good for them. They > either had to backport fixes manually or just let the code rot. > > :-/ > > Odi > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
