On 2009-01-12, Francis Galiegue <[email protected]> wrote:
> The more it goes, the more I'm skeptical about this "different development
> model" schism between ant and ant-contrib.
Ant == community driven ASF project
ant-contrib == "benevolent dictator" style project with external
contributions
> Or is there also a license compatibility problem?
ant-contrib uses the older 1.1 version of the Apache (Software)
License, that shouldn't be an issue. IP could be an issue since the
ant-contrib project (like most any open source project outside the
bigger foundations) accepted patches without asking for proper
legaleese - I'm not blaming ant-contrib, this is how most projects do
it.
The problem (if there really is one) is two-sided.
On the one hand ant-contrib contains some tasks that would never ever
make it into Ant because they are in direct violation of the Ant
developer's design decisions (<var>) and on the other hand code from
ant-contrib needed to be properly contributed to the ASF, which
involves having people sign paper work that you may not know how to
reach.
Personally I'd prefer to see ant-contrib do a release and have people
use that over forking ant-contrib anywhere.
Stefan
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