"Ward, Jeff" wrote:
> I have a taglib / project that my company has been working on that I would
> like to open source. Before the decision to release any source code for the
> project is made I need to gather all the legal info for my company. I
> scanned the Apache site but all I found was the Apache Constitution and
> Project Guidelines. Is there anything more? I would be looking for the rules
> regarding use of the code, modification and distribution, liability, etc.
> Any suggestions of where to find this? Also, what is the process for
> proposing a new project?
The legalities are all covered by the Apache Software License
< http://apache.org/LICENSE >
Basically, the deal is that you donate the code to the Apache Software
Foundation, who then accepts the liabilities, holding you harmless.
The Jakarta project is designed to provide a place where your donated
code can be distributed and maintained by a team of volunteers, so that
the codebase can live on even if you go on to something else ;-)
> Now on another note... This library contains pure view logic tags, its
> aim is to allow for a clean abstraction of view from model/business logic.
> It does this, I feel, in a fundamentally different way to systems such as
> Struts and the J2EE MVC pattern. (I believe it implements MVC in a much
> cleaner way, like struts, by allowing multiple named signals as opposed to
> the J2EE's one signal, post.) Being a framework I don't know where to put
> it. It contains several sub groupings of functionality that come together as
> the framework but are viable on their own as well. If it was accepted, where
> should it go? Here? A main project? Some other open-source initiative? Any
> suggestions on this front would be greatly appreciated.
Actual Jakarta subprojects can be proposed to the jakarta-general list.
The process is outlined at <
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/management.html > at the bottom.
If you were able to make the code available in some way, it would be
easier to determine where it would fit within Jakarta.
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