Hello I have a few questions and notes about the DataViews which I would like to ask and share.
We from SOMAP.org are using DataViews since quite some time and since we are developing a Swing based application, DataViews really are a time saver for us. Because of the general focus of the Cayenne project relating to DataViews, we now decided to take over (or fork) the DataViews. This was no easy decision for I don't want to anger anybody from the Cayenne project and on the other hand this means that we will have to make releases and everything on our own which "distracts" us from our main application. But IMHO this is the best solution at the moment. Said that, there are still a few questions open on which I would like to hear your answers and comments: - I am no big fan of forks. So if there is some solution in which we do not fork the DataViews but officially take over the maintenance off-site or something, I would prefer that. This would also mean we would stay with the name and don't change it to something else. - Our SOBF Tool is released under the GPL. I would welcome if we could change licence for the source code of the DataViews that is already there, or find some way to dual licence the current version of the DataViews (Apache Licence and LGPL?). Or perhaps there is another solution. This is only a question of making our lives easier than of removing anyones copyright or something. - We planned to integrate the DataViews into our own project on SourceForge. But if there are other developers, I think we should start a new project on SourceForge. But I won't start another project if we from SOMAP.org are the only ones working on the DataViews. So please raise your hand if you are interested in helping in the development. Thats about it. I am looking forward to your answers. Regards, Adrian
