Hi. Let me add a few bits, as we're eager to participate as initial contributors too, and have discussed some of these bits with the other initial founders.
Le mardi 16 novembre 2010 à 17:29 -0500, Steve K Speicher a écrit : > This project will look to align with other appropriate open source > projects such as Eclipse, Apache, etc if and when needed. The focus of > this OSLC open source project is narrowly on specification and > implementation validation. > Complementing on Steve's introduction, there's not yet a legal body to formally contribute the code to. The project may some day try and candidate to an existing Open Source foundation if that helps (which will be less work than setting up a novel infrastructure, for a project intended to be quite modest, at least in the current foreseen contributions). Still, we want to make sure that all contributions can indeed be licensed under a well agreed upon Open Source license (Apache license, and every contributor keeping copyright ownership on his/her code), so we'll probably try and collect Contributor's license agreements (CLA) to make sure there's no copyright/license problems embedded in contributions from the very beginning. I hope this will be a good mix of legalese, yet allowing contributions to flow in (IANAL) ;-) For the curious ones, I've added to the wiki a comparison document between the original Apache CLA and the proposed CLA document. That's still work in progress, of course, and we'll try and make sure there's a lightwight process, still compatible with copyright law, that will allow contributors to join in in a safe way. Adopting a contribution process similar to the one of the Apache Software Foundation seems to me the best way to diminish legal uncertainty, so that this project can be a successful Open Source project. Looking forward to reading your comments/proposals to join :-) Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER <[email protected]> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)
