Re: Babeldoc Proposal

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Hammant
Two more things.. 1) Be aware that you cannot ultimately import any GPL (or LGPL without explicit permission of authors) code to org.apache.* packaged code (policy). 2) Read up on the chatter concerning the POI project's arrival that started 15 months ago. Hard for them, but worth it. See y

Re: Babeldoc Proposal

2003-06-03 Thread Peter Donald
Hi, If you are serious about this then there is a couple of things I would do to make Jakarta peeps take note. * change the license to Apache-like or lighter (ie BSDL) * change the way you run the project to be in the Apache "tradition" (ie meritocracy and our decision making process) * start

Babeldoc Proposal

2003-06-02 Thread McDonald, Bruce
All, I am the project leader for the Babeldoc project (http://www.babeldoc.com) and have been tasked to see if we can join the Jakarta project. We are currently an open source project (GPL) hosted on SourceForge but we have found ourselves relying more and more on Jakarta code. Additionally w