On 2/23/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/23/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the one hand it's bad to have non-ASF copyrighted code in the ASF > > repository; on the other hand it might make the rollerweblogger > > releases from the committers harder to do. > > I guess I don't understand the problem. Do we have ASF committers that > are adament that individual copyrights must be retained in material > that is donated to the foundation? (We did have that case with > another project.)
Anil has the right of it. We shouldn't be leaping in to make all the source ASF-based while there are still questions over the resolution of the LGPL dependencies. Roller entered the Incubator amidst a euphoric wave of joy and belief that there was no legal issue in using LGPL'd works - long a thorny topic. However that was followed by the realisation that distributing LGPL'd works really screws up the conditions set on an ASF product. I think the rest of the list of TODOs are blocked by our inability to release an official ASF version of Roller. Anil points out one negative side of this - that if Roller had to leave the ASF, it would be a lot harder if lots of these things were done; but another one is that it makes it harder for the Roller committers to make releases at rollerweblogger.org. Currently it does as much as possible to not look like an Apache release. Thus the no-mans land in which Roller is stuck. The community maintains momentum and I spend my 'Roller time' keeping up to date with the licensing issues on the private lists and hassling Cliff Schmidt mercilessly :) Also offering help etc so that he doesn't hire hitmen. Hibernate is the easy one to focus on, but we have other licensing issues to deal with too. There are other LGPL components, and we need to do an audit of our Javascript; I want to make sure that we're good there license-wise. Hen
