On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Bill Stoddard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the main issue here is whether the ASF can comply with the T&Cs of > being a full OSGi Alliance member, specifically the T&Cs around the IP > policies. While in theory, the OSGi Alliance might consider a fee waiver, I > don't expect them to make T&C exceptions for anyone, ASF included. You could be right. It was quite a long time ago I read the "new" membership agreement, put in place early 2008 I think it was. But, AFAIR, the main 'issue' that I saw myself, at that time when my company was a member, was not in the membership agreement, but the Statement Of Work (I think it was called), which after signed allowed you to contribute to an expert group. The SoW regulated a lot of the IP rights, which may or may not be incompatible with Apache views. Should dig up the membership agreement and have a look, I guess... Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
