----- Original Message ----
> From: Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 10:55:14 AM
> Subject: Re: Distribution management
>
> I certainly don't think that Thrift should leave Apache, but I don't think
> that
> it's reasonable lack of motivation on the part of the active developers that
> is
> keeping Thrift in the incubator. We have tried several times to get all the
> licensing stuff in order, and it's just never managed to come together.
> Partially it seems to be that some of the contributors haven't supplied the
> appropriate documentation, and partially it seems to be that when they have,
> those documents have gone missing on receipt. Perhaps because of the
> extremely
> large number of contributors to Thrift this is more of an issue than for
> other
> incubating projects.
>
> We really need a champion at Apache who knows their way around the process
> and
> has the ear of legal (or whoever it is that is supposed to have our
> documents)
> who can assist a point Thrifter in getting this stuff all squared away.
> Personally, while I read the threads about the release process, I feel pretty
> powerless to participate.
>
> -Bryan
>
Todd is on the right track with respect to getting the legal issues in order.
The only thing he's not able to resolve is the LGPL issue on those 2 build
files. I can ping the legal team again to see if they're willing to deal with
the issue (favorably or not).
