on 6/7/01 8:58 PM, "Otis Gospodnetic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon,
>
> It's late and I may be missing something, but it seems
> that joining Jakarta would mean giving all rights to
> ASF, which would be the same as the Justin Well's
> WebMacro case. Isn't this what you had a big problem
> with?
Justin Wells is some guy living in Canada. The ASF is a non-profit
organization that is legally incorporated.
I have a problem with giving control to an unstable individual who makes
irrational decisions.
I don't have a problem with assigning something to a well known stable
non-profit organization.
:-)
> I just checked out the ASF license and I have a
> question. If Lucene becomes a Jakarta project, is
> anyone and everyone allowed to take the source code
> from there and continue development on their own
> branch/version
Yes. Forking is acceptable. It is also acceptable with the GPL/LGPL.
>, change the license, et cetera?
You can't just change the license on a piece of software and call it your
own.
-jon
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