> They did this on August 5, after you droped them from the project, isn't it?
This is not entirely true... The project was registered on 2003-07-18 at 11:30. -James On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 08:33, Vladyslav Kosulin wrote: > Bill Burke wrote: > > > JBoss Group, as caretaker of the JBoss project, has recently decided to > > remove CVS access committers for a few of our committers. We do not remove > > from CVS without good reason nor without just cause. These are the reasons > > for the removals: > > > > 1. These individuals have refused to discuss design issues on our public > > forums. It is crucial to have a public record of design discussions so that > > others may particpate in future work. > > Good point, but they can have another one: developer's forums are been > hosted on JBoss Group's site, not the JBoss project's site (why not ot > use Sourceforge mail lists for this?). May be they would like not to > transfer their IP to the JBoss Group, IMHO. I can be wrong. > > > 2. More importantly, we have learned that they have forked JBoss. We also > > believe they are preparing to submit it, or some derivation, to the new > > Apache Geronimo project which would violate copyright and LGPL. Our proof? > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/elba > > They did this on August 5, after you droped them from the project, isn't it? > What I understand they will try to separate their IP from the JBoss > Group's, so they can contribute _their_ code to Apache under ASL. They > have the right to do so. > But I guess it would be better if JBoss Group and CDN folks try to > resolve the IP issues privately without all this buzz. > > > 3. There is just too much conflict of interest of developers working on two > > different J2EE projects that are being developed under two very different > > open-source licenses. > > Good point. Agree. > > > JBoss Group believes strongly in the LGPL license and will protect all > > copyrights held by any JBoss contributor. > > Yes, but contributor has the right to contribute their code to another > project under any license they choose, if they did not transfer their > rights to the JBoss Group. I do not beleive that anybody outside JBoss > Group did this. > Having CVS, it is simple (yet time consuming) to find out, who > contributed any chunk of code. > > Vlad > > P.S. I am not trying to judge you folks, I just have to know what's > going on here, and I definitely do not like all this silent undercover > moves from both sides. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > _______________________________________________ > JBoss-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
