Looks good, thanks Niall
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Niall Pemberton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > > Good point. I added the suggested paragraph with a note that the small > contributions in question were made under the BSD license. > > Also, I realized that I never followed up on Philipp's software grant > before uploading the sources. :-( I chatted with him just now and it > since he hasn't contributed more than a few patches, it seems fine to > include him in the category of "small contributions". > > The full report is below. > > <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. > > Software Grants have been received from Ben Litchfield and Daniel > Wilson who are the primary authors of the PDFBox, FontBox and JempBox > software. There have been a lot of small contributions (under the BSD > license) by a number of other people to the project and it was asked > (see http://markmail.org/message/zy6oweihmenqt6o4) 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. > > 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> > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting >
