> In practice the resolution of this could be much simpler - the simple > assignment of the copyright by Exolab/Intalio to Apache. However, to do > this we would need to synchonize with Apache staff. Keep in mind that > Intalio/Exolab has formally discontinued support of the opensource > iniatives related to CORBA, and have recognized the actives of the > OpenORB Community Project under source forge as the continuation.
Of that I was not aware. It changes the perspective doesn't it? > The > intention of the OpenORB SF team has always been to bring this into > Apache and towards this end the overall management of the project is > based completely on Jakarta guidelines, coding standards strictly follow > Avalon guidelines, leverage of the Avalon Framework, a number of > Excalibur utilities etc. The point here is that this is a loose-end > that needs to be cleaned up and that needs involvement of Apache staff. > > > > >IMO, the right thing to do is to delete all code like this about which > >there is any doubt ASAP, then talk to the jakarta PMC (and ultimately > >the board & lawyers) to figure this out, and only put the sources into > >CVS again when all those people have given a definite permission. > > > > That's a little bit like throwing out the baby with the bath water. > There are people using this code base - in fact the OpenORB SF actives > on PSS reference the Apache code base as the source of on-going > development. Secondly, there is new code under the enterprise project > (pure Apache license) that is reused under the OpenORB project - worst > case scanrio is that there is some slicing and dicing to be done > concerning clean seperation of pure Apache as oppoed to mixed content. very cool =) I think OpenORB is a really good candidate for trialling incubator.apache.org. I'm sure many people want to see an open source CORBA impl thrive (even if I personally would like to see CORBA vanish as I find it too difficult to really understand :P); apache could be the place. > In any case I really think this should be discussed at the > Apache/Jakarta level before doing anything like code deletion. I still believe the code should be deleted (in the sense that it is moved off of apache servers, so the ASF is not in breach of any license; sourceforge's got bandwidth, don't they :), _then_ discussed. I know there's people on this list that know how to migrate cvs trees cleanly :) still, IANAL. I suggest you (or OpenORB people) talk to various PMCs and board members. grz, Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
