Hi, On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Makes sense. How far did the ICLA collection effort go already? Just the > main committers or also the authors of any non-trivial contribution in > the past? I think that's a prerequisite to a first release, isn't it?
We have ICLAs and software grants from the main developers. The legal-discuss@ mailing list didn't object to the idea of this being sufficient for importing the code (see http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4), and I believe the same to be true also for releasing the code. Also, just to be on the safe side we may want to keep the original BSD license around and include a "based on" clause in the NOTICE file, like this: Apache PDFBox Copyright 2008 The Apache Software Foundation This product includes software developed at The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). Based on source code originally developed at pdfbox.org. Copyright (c) 2002-2008, www.pdfbox.org > I would do the package rename as soon as possible. Since the project > goes through a major change right now, the package change together with > the switch to 0.8.x makes sense to me. I'm fine with that. If we do the package rename now, we could also take the opportunity of dropping all deprecated methods and other legacy stuff (if any), as downstream users will in any case need to update their source to use the renamed packages. BR, Jukka Zitting
