One of the things I like best about the ASF is that we're pragmatic, it
even says so on our front page: 8-)
"The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus
based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a
desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field."
The pragmatisim in our license extends to how we operate.
Fundamentally, the ASF is a non-profit devoted to providing software for
the public good. In most cases, we allow our projects and communities
to build software in whatever way they choose, as long as it meets basic
community criteria of being open and collaborative.
In terms of infrastructure supported tooling - i.e. stuff the ASF
provides to multiple projects as a basic service - while we'd certainly
like to use AL-compatibly licensed software or other open source
licensed software - we're not going to turn up our noses at any freely
offered solution that does a better job. The choice of tools - in this
case (IIRC) a tool that's easier to admin and slightly more powerful -
does not change our core belief that the software we produce must use
our license.
The flip side to this is meritocracy, both in terms of software and
support. Deploying and supporting something like Clover or Cobertura
takes admin time as well. We're happy to evaluate other solutions that
provide the same functionality as Clover - as long as there are proven
*infrastructure-approved* volunteers who are willing to donate the work
required to make it as useful a tool, *and* to continue to maintain it.
This an obvious and fundamental difference from much of the GPL world,
where many believe keeping the faith is a primary importance. At the
ASF, the primary importance is providing openly licensed software for
the public good.
- Shane
Henri Yandell <hyand...@gmail.com> wrote:
I question the labeling of Cobertura as our dogfood and Clover as not
our dogfood.
Which is 'our dogfood', the GPL product or the proprietary product
built on top of permissively licensed Open Source (not that I know if
Clover is like this; but I've heard the same argument against JIRA)?
Do we support the "Open Source movement", whatever that might be
described as today, or our users?
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