Don't believe everything you read...we almost have the license agreement worked out with Sun for the ProjectX code!
James Duncan Davidson was correct in saying that "we're on the last leg of getting this straightened out". Also note: it shouldn't be "within a month"...it's more like days, if all goes well. Stay tuned! We'll make the code available for people to look at under the Apache license, as we're all working out how to integrate it. Mike Wong Kok Wai wrote: > > Sun criticized for delays on Apache project > By Wylie Wong > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > March 23, 2000, 12:25 p.m. PT > URL: http://news.cnet.com/category/0-1003-200-1582238.html > > Sun Microsystems is feeling the heat after failing to deliver Web > technology to a nonprofit group as promised. > > The company earlier this year pledged to donate Extensible Markup > Language (XML) development tools to the nonprofit Apache Software > Foundation, as part of a plan, > along with other software makers, to promote adoption of the technology > by making free tools available to developers. Sun even trumpeted the > gesture in print > advertisements and marketing brochures. > > Now, four months later, angry officials at Apache said the tools have > still not been delivered. Sun representatives said the delay is the > result of a legal snafu. > > <snip> > > "We want this to happen," Davidson said. "Developers I've talked to are > looking forward to getting our technology to integrate into the parser. > We're on the last leg of getting > the legal stuff straightened out." > > In the meantime, Sun--which previously contributed Java programming > language technology to Apache--hopes to work out a licensing agreement > soon and give away its > XML technology to Apache within a month. > > All the other companies who promised to donate XML technology to > Apache's effort have contributed. Lotus and two independent software > developers are giving away their > Extensible StyleSheet Language (XSL) technology, which lets users define > how a document is presented. DataChannel and BowStreet have also donated > technology. > > Question: What contributions did DataChannel and BowStreet make?
