I think we should say something specific about Software grants - its probably implied by the fact that sources have been imported - but IMO we should spell it out since thats an important achievement in the due-diligence of bringing in the code base. How about adding the following paragraph:
Software Grants have been received from Ben Litchfield, Daniel Wilson and Philipp Koch who are the primary authors of the PDFBox, FontBox and JempBox software. There have been a lot of small contributions by a number of other people to the project and it was asked[1] on the legal-discuss list whether the primary authors have "sufficient rights" to grant a license for all of the code, or if we have to contact all the other contributors for separate grants. Having received no response to the question on legal-discuss we assumed that software grants from the primary authors was sufficient. [1] http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4 Niall On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's again time for our quarterly report. Here's what I was planning > to submit later today: > > <report> > Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF > documents. PDFBox entered incubation on February 7th, 2008. > > We have finally migrated all sources to Apache svn and set up the > project website at http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/. We also set up > a CI build using Hudson. Traffic is picking up on the user and > developer mailing lists, new issues are being reported through Jira, > and there is initial discussion about an incubating 0.8.0 release. > > We're discussing about what to do with the FontBox and JempBox > codebases that are included as subprojects of PDFBox. We might decide > to merge them with similar efforts in other Apache projects, most > notably XML Graphics. > > Issues before graduation: > > * Increase community size and activity > * License review > * Export control notifications > * First Apache release > </report> > > As usual, comments and improvements are welcome. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting >
