Re: [solved] Boost C++ source libraries are allowed to be used

2011-10-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, the Boost C++ source libraries which we are using in our project can still be used under the Apache's rules. The Boost Software License Version 1.0 is now been classified as a category A license -

Re: Shutdown of the download.services.openoffice.org host and its Mirrorbrain instance

2011-10-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: snip The problem is that the ASF do not want to host and provide services of special software for single projects. I can understand this as even the ASF infra is a team of volunteers and their time is limited as it is

Re: Shutdown of the download.services.openoffice.org host and its Mirrorbrain instance

2011-10-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Christian Lohmaier cl...@openoffice.org wrote: Hi Dennis, *, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I read somewhere, and I don't know where, that ASF did not want torrents to be used.  I'm guessing that the issue

Re: Shutdown of the download.services.openoffice.org host and its Mirrorbrain instance

2011-10-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I read somewhere, and I don't know where, that ASF did not want torrents to be used. The meaning and force of this statement is hard to judge without a full context Apache has surprisingly and confusingly

Re: Shutdown of the download.services.openoffice.org host and its Mirrorbrain instance

2011-10-25 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Christian Lohmaier cl...@openoffice.org wrote: Hi Robert, *, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Christian Lohmaier cl...@openoffice.org wrote: [...] That doesn't make

Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components

2011-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip Now, for our SVN, we need to host the actual source of the MPL components,

Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components

2011-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip There is no intent to hoard.  From talking to developers on this project I get the sense that they want to upstream patches more than was done previously.  But contributing a patch is no guarantee that it will be

Re: License implications of build-time or test-time dependencies?

2011-10-21 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hmm ... We have discussed some of the things that must be replaced but we have not

Re: Please remove this unused header (was Re: Anti-grain Geometry)

2011-10-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hello; This header has license issues: main/agg/inc/agg_conv_gpc.h It is part of the General Poligon Clipper and  unlike the rest of AGG its free only for non commercial use. I would delete it myself but my desktop

[licensing] Re: License implications of build-time or test-time dependencies?

2011-10-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Another question that has come up based on review of OpenOffice code. If a 3rd party module is used as part of the build or test automation, but is not part of our release, do we care about whether it is copyleft?  Or do we

Re: License implications of build-time or test-time dependencies?

2011-10-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote:  One observation, before it slips through. Depending on gpl#39;d compilers and tools that we don#39;t carry in the release is fine AFAICT. In our bootstrap procedure we use Dmake (gplv1), which we must remove in favor of

Re: How to handle the native language lists?

2011-10-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This question came up a few months ago, when we initially started the podling.  The legacy OOo project had many mailing lists which were for non-English list traffic. snip So that's my proposal. I have my asbestos underwear

Re: Is the JRE license OK for inclusing in AOO?

2011-10-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: snip It is not clear to me that either of those bundlings in binary releases is explicitly tolerated by the information that is provided at http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html.  There seems to be no help in

Re: [licensing] On Apache Releases [WAS Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components]

2011-10-20 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin snip At Apache, a source release is (just) what's in version control when the release is cut, is canonical and mandatory. Other artifacts follow the binary release rules

Re: How voting works...

2011-10-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: snip In other words, make every action of the PPMC as inclusive as possible. +1 Projects developed the Apache way only stay healthy when there is a continual flow from user to contributor to committer to PMCer.

Re: Copyright Notices, Source Headers and Licenses (By Example)

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
2011/10/15 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip So, strategy  Will Apache Rat help with this?  I thought it had

On The Tao Of CLAs [WAS Re: Copyright Notices, Source Headers and Licenses (By Example)]

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I think we discussed this before but it would be excellent if Robert can further clarify it once and for all. Apache process evolves :-) Opinions differ and consensus emerges forever but I'll add a few words to the mix...

Re: [DISCUSS] Publishing the PPMC Roster

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is a wonderful idea and I would like to add an additional item -- can we get a list of folks who have submitted iCLAs toward this project,

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ Hope I did OK in the interview.  At least I got a good closing quote, even if it was a little tweaked in the story. Perhaps in

Re: Copyright Notices, Source Headers and Licenses (By Example)

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Thank you Robert you've been very clear, but ... --- On Thu, 10/13/11, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: ... Please jump in where I've been unclear) ... It is vital that only the owner (or their agent) alters a copyright

Re: Copyright Notices, Source Headers and Licenses (By Example)

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: snip It is vital that only the owner (or their agent) alters a copyright notice unless specific written permission been granted

Re: [legal] How to clarify, if usage of Boost C++ source libraries is allowed

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip Honestly, I see clear answers from legal-discuss for only a small fraction of the questions that are submitted.  I don't know if we're misusing that list or what.  But it does not appear to operate like a list where

Re: Foundation blog posting on Apache OOo

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: snip The question that Simon is asking is simple.  Some have read the best wishes to TDF and LibreOffice as being sarcastic and mean spirited.  I certainly didn't read it that way.  The issue seems to be that the paragraph

Re: Blog Created

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Ah well.  I've seen those kinds of blogs, that are essentially announcements.  So it is  a notices mechanism with a syndication feed.  I will have to go look at one of the ones that seems to get lots of hits

Copyright Notices, Source Headers and Licenses (By Example)

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
(Using [1] as an illustration. I recommend [2] for further reading. Please jump in where I've been unclear) A copyright notice is a simple claim of copyright ownership: for example Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. It is vital that only the owner (or their agent) alters a

Re: How about a new branch for the legal changes? (was Re: A systematic approach to IP review?)

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hi; Looking at how big, and mostly cosmetic but necessary, a change it will be to bring in all the SGA license changes, and given that it requires manual intervention and is not something that can be done in one huge mega

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Off-topic.  Please drop this line of inquiry and return to the Subject of this thread, which is about determining required info for the crypto export declaration. Which is collecting a list of sources [1] :-) OOo uses

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Please just do it this way: http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html ASF is very clear on what is required for *its* releases and this page appears to be comprehensive. The Apache rules break down into reporting

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Please just do it this way: http://www.apache.org/dev

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: Following the instructions[3], step 1 is to work out whether OOo

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: EAR 740.13(e) should be on http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfrsid=bad7a54a31430303e17ce648c13e51b3rgn=div5view

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Let me see if I can help ground this. Currently, digest algorithms are used for a variety of things.  The common case is SHA1.  These are not themselves a concern, as I understand it, since their function is

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Let me see if I can help ground this. Remember, the export could be of code, not just the binaries.  So if we have code that does asymmetrical

Re: Request dev help: Info for required crypto export declaration

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Technically, this was to have been resolved before the code was put up on SVN.  We need to audit specifically for this rather quickly, and including the places that Rob also identified (import-export filters and

Re: Category B licenses

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: For the magical case of binaries that are not built from the Apache code, what occurred to me first were shared libraries (.DLL or .SO, as well as CLASSPATH goodies and .JAR files) and also executables that

Re: Hauling in third-party code (was: Category B licenses)

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 29, 2011 7:54 AM, Jens-Heiner Rechtien jhrecht...@web.de wrote: On 06/29/2011 01:19 AM, Greg Stein wrote: ... This process sounds exactly like what the buildout tool[1] is designed to handle. It seems like a good

Re: Getting to our first build

2011-06-28 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
(Reintroducing myself, I'm an Apache Member with some knowledge of releases, builds and legal stuff. I signed up to provide some hands on help in these areas. I've also been involved with the Incubator for a while so I might also jump in with .) (At Apache, we conventionally avoid top posting and

Re: Getting to our first build

2011-06-28 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Top-posting is just fine for replies where you're talking about the message in general. If you're replying to specific pieces, then yeah: in-line comments are best. We have no rules against top-posting at Apache. We want to

Re: Getting to our first build

2011-06-28 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:34, Rob Weir apa...@robweir.com wrote: snip Of course, if you think you are close to having a clean version of OOo ready to check in, then I don't want to interrupt the fine work that you are

Re: Category B licenses

2011-06-28 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Michael Stahl m...@openoffice.org wrote: one thing that is currently unclear to me is whether/how Apache OOo may depend on code licensed under a Category B license. the most prominent specimen of this category is the MPL. (Apache is mailing-list centric and

Re: Subversion history

2011-06-19 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: snip When Oracle will shutdown the main server for distributing release files, then also the mirrors will delete them (except GWDG which I've asked to host the files longer). So, we have to rebuild a little mirror