I think we all understand that the bluesky team is working to get the
code ready to be contributed to the ASF under the AL 2.0. Bertrand's
concern is very specific and easy to fix...
His concern (and mine) is this... the bluesky webpage here ,
http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/ is potentially misleading.
Someone landing on this page could easily believe that the code being
pointed to is 'approved' by the ASF and is part of the ASF BlueSky
project. The web page needs to be updated to clearly show a) the
license of the code being referenced and b) clearly state that the code
is NOT part of the official ASF bluesky project.
If I have time this afternoon, I may try to make some updates myself to
provide guidance. If I do make updates, the bluesky team will certainly
need to clean them up :-)
Thanks,
Bill
chen hecky wrote:
Dear all,
At first, I want to say that we can't upload the code to Apache now
because that the code is non-ASF. We now have to change the code which
includes GPL(
http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/files/html/lib%20support.html you
will see the problem of our code from there, there are some lib of GPL
inluding in our code.). So we can't submit the code to Apache. We are
changing it to ASF, and we need help from you, community and Apache.
However, somebody want to see our code, so we have to setup a website(It's
not a Apache's) for downloading the code. The code are not ASF.
We are now trying our best to change the code from non-ASF to ASF, but we
are short of experience. I think the community is a place of communicating
and studing with others, so I hope get help from the community.
2008/8/9, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
While reviewing the BlueSky podling website, I noticed the following
issues :
- The BlueSky podling website have a download page, that is pointing
to non-apache bluesky released artifacts. I think this is at least
very confusing, as it can allude users to think this is a endorsed ASF
release. Is this OK ?....
As others have indicated, the download links at
http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/ point directly to non-ASF servers
hosting, in some cases, GPL-licensed code (XPlayer), without any
mention that said "releases" were made outside of the ASF.
This is totally unacceptable.
What would be ok, IMHO, is for the apache.org bluesky pages to point
to a download page on another server, which lists the downloads and
their licenses, and is clearly labelled as non-ASF.
Bluesky mentors, is this being fixed?
http://markmail.org/message/l245dde7cjhwzmkj vaguely hints at
"correcting things as quickly as possible", but it's been nine days
since Luciano's message, and the download links are still up at
http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
-Bertrand
