On 05.08.2008 16:06:34 Jukka Zitting wrote:
> 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.

Hehe, what answer is no answer? Anyway, you've asked, nobody objected
and I'm happy we don't have to track down each and every one.

> 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 guess that makes sense.

> > 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.

Good idea. I remember I have a couple of points I'd like fixed. I'll
have to make time to present a proposal.


Jeremias Maerki

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