Re: Theft of authorship

2001-06-08 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Ceki Gülcü wrote: Hi Jon, I am referring to otherwise honest people who choose to contribute their enhancements back to the project. They create new classes but in the process remove the names of previous authors. They do this in good-faith as otherwise they would

RE: The Lie

2001-06-08 Thread GOMEZ Henri
There is many reference in IBM manuals and online doc with 'Powered by Apache'. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/http/ For ref about Tomcat under AS/400 go there are search for Tomcat http://www.ignite400.org/cgi-dta/dtwforum.d2w/search - Henri Gomez

Re: Theft of authorship

2001-06-08 Thread Ceki Gülcü
I almost forgot. A corollary of the 10+ lines authorship rule is that if you copy-and-paste over ten lines of code then you should grant the author of the 10+ lines authorship status on your code that imports the 10+ lines. If the copy-and-pasted code has a different license/copyright then

Using the Apache Licence

2001-06-08 Thread Jasper Potts
I am starting a new open source project and would like to use the apache licence for two reasons: the ability to use the code in commercial projects and in the hope that one day it may get accepted as a Jakarta project. I have a couple of questions as to how to apply the licence: Does the full

Re: Using the Apache Licence

2001-06-08 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Jasper Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am starting a new open source project and would like to use the apache licence for two reasons: the ability to use the code in commercial projects and in the hope that one day it may get accepted as a Jakarta project. I have a couple of questions as

Re: Using the Apache Licence

2001-06-08 Thread Jon Stevens
on 6/8/01 6:52 AM, Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jasper Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am starting a new open source project and would like to use the apache licence for two reasons: the ability to use the code in commercial projects and in the hope that one day it may

RE: The Lie

2001-06-08 Thread Danny Angus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete wrote: I am not sure this is true - at least in the US and Australian law. This was told me by a lawyer over here: In Scotland, the authors of open source and public domain software could be liable where there is no printed licence

Re: Lucene acceptance in Jakarta

2001-06-08 Thread Ted Husted
Was there a post with a [VOTE] header? +1 I think Craig and Geir are tied up with Java One this week. Jon Stevens wrote: Re: Lucene being added as a Jakarta Project. 5 of 10 (not counting Duncan) of the PMC members voted +1. The rest haven't voted (shame on you). Can I please get the

Re: Using the Apache Licence

2001-06-08 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Jon Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/8/01 6:52 AM, Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jasper Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am starting a new open source project and would like to use the apache licence for two reasons: the ability to use the code in commercial

Re: Sometimes you need to throw the fish back...

2001-06-08 Thread Sean Legassick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The other being a potential regression in reflection/security found in Scarab. I say potential regression as I don't know yet if it is a security hole that has been closed, a tightening up of checks that prior JDKs were lax on,

Re: Sometimes you need to throw the fish back...

2001-06-08 Thread Sam Ruby
Sean Legassick wrote: Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The other being a potential regression in reflection/security found in Scarab. I say potential regression as I don't know yet if it is a security hole that has been closed, a tightening up of checks that prior JDKs were lax on, or a bug.

Re: Using the Apache Licence

2001-06-08 Thread Jon Stevens
on 6/8/01 10:56 AM, Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're on the licensing list, and know better than me, but I remember committing something with headers like /*** * (C) , The Apache Software

Re: Using the Apache Licence

2001-06-08 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Jon Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/8/01 10:56 AM, Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're on the licensing list, and know better than me, but I remember committing something with headers like /*** *

Re: Theft of authorship

2001-06-08 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 01:24 08.06.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: I think this is really a significant question. How significant a patch does it take for someone to legitimately be considered an additional author of a particular source file? Attribution in a CVS commit should always be there -- but is

Re: Sometimes you need to throw the fish back...

2001-06-08 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Since jdk 1.4 uses jdbc3, of course jdbc drivers will now not compile. The bug is in the Sun documentation saying that 1.4 is compatible with 1.3. Sam Ruby wrote: Edwin Goei wrote: Oops, I sent a reply before reading this email. I'd encourage you to file bugs on the other components