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
