Thanks for the details. well if it's not possible, that's it, no reason to continue on this topic. At least I see several people appreciate the notion of public-domain/unlicense :) .
so ... Bye harmony and let's hope someone will revive you one day. johann > -----Original Message----- > From: t.p.elli...@gmail.com > Sent: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:30:24 +0000 > To: dev@harmony.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Vote] Move Apache Harmony to the Attic > > On 03/11/2011 08:49, johann Sorel wrote: >> You are right, if they want they can use it with this license but >> still it's a source of problems. we have plenty of different licenses >> out there, MIT, BSD, GPL ... and some more license we surely be >> created in the futur, mixing them is not always fun. All of them are >> not fully compatible. Legal problems are something really dirty when >> you encounter them, noone working on open-source projects want to >> have such problems. >> >> The apache license is ~more or less~ fine today (everyone has it's >> own preference), but might become a problem later. To avoid those >> problems the change can only be done now while the PMC is still >> here. > > There are no rights granted explicitly to the PMC itself, so it is not > true that anything is 'lost' in this regard when the PMC is disbanded. > >> Setting it in public domain can also make it revive, forks can start >> much more easely from it. Several JVM have ~dyed~ (or are in lawsuit >> like google dalvik, android) in the last year. Having a few more vm >> out there would be for the best, specialy if they are already >> reliable alternatives like harmony. > > Contributions to the Harmony project are all made under the ICLA [1] > which grants licenses to the Foundation and to recipients of the code we > distribute. > > While Apache owns the collective work of a release, the original author > retains ownership of their individual contributions. Therefore Apache > can only operate within the terms of the license granted. > > Even if we wanted to - the gift is not ours to give. > > [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt > > Regards, > Tim ____________________________________________________________ Send your photos by email in seconds... TRY FREE IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if3 Works in all emails, instant messengers, blogs, forums and social networks.
