I can't speak for everyone involved, but would have assumed that
everyone knew that Oscar was hosted on ObjectWeb. I cannot fully claim
to be aware of what should or should not go into a project proposal.
Further, the issue here isn't necessarily a "move" of Oscar as much as a
seeding with Oscar code. Out of my own interest in keeping the Oscar
legacy in tact, I would prefer to think of it as a move.
I am the only contributor to the Oscar core code. My work on Oscar long
pre-dates my involvement with ObjectWeb.
The main reason to start an Apache OSGi project is to further the
support of OSGi technology. Apache carries more weight than ObjectWeb
and this will be helpful in influencing the future, such as JSR 277.
-> richard
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
Umm, it has been brought to my attention that the incubator
proposal completely failed to mention that the Oscar project
already exists at ObjectWeb [1] and has been developed there
for over a year [2].
[1] http://oscar.objectweb.org/
[2] http://mail-archive.objectweb.org/oscar/index.html
Don't you think that might have been important information
to point out in the proposal, considering that it impacts
both our relationship with ObjectWeb and the nature of the
intellectual property licenses that will be required?
Why is oscar moving from ObjectWeb to Apache?
Have all of the contributors agreed to relicensing the code?
....Roy
