On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> How do you know it's done 'appropriately' in your scenario? You could >>>> have had just as many board members up your nose by using your >>>> ant/github procedure and depositing the resulting bundle on Apache >>>> 'dist' as an 'auxiliary binary bundle'. >>>> >>> >>> How so? what would the board members do me? >>> >>> whats wrong with what i did legally with >>> https://github.com/rmuir/jetty6-unicode (3.6 solr depends on that). >>> >>> I forked another project (Welcome to github!) and put up downloads. >>> ivy downloads from there. >>> >>> The licensing terms are legit, its not doing any thing sheisty with >>> apache infrastructure, there are no jars in our source tree. >>> >>> its just an open source fork of an abandoned project (jetty 6) that i >>> picked up and patched for unicode bugs. Anyone can use the build.xml >>> there to recreate it totally from source code. >> >> You didn't do this as an official act of an Apache PMC. However, if >> you had done this to Xerces, you might have gotten some (I think >> ill-informed) trademark hassles if you didn't change the package >> names. However, I think that's a digression. > > Maybe, thats ok. I could have also ignored these. Seeing how Apache > enforces its trademark with Lucene (e.g. Zend Lucene), I'm not worried > in the slightest. Bring the lawyers on: I'm not afraid. > > The best part about it: I forked this project independently, just like > any old Joe Schmoe can fork any old github project and improve it. And > if the licensing is ok, we are free to depend on it, and our PMC > doesnt need to worry about trademarks for projects we arent > responsible for.
That's right. If you, Rob Muir, just so happen to set up a github project with a fix to Xerces, and I, Benson Margulies, just happen to help you publish it to Maven Central, then the PMC, without (much) fear of hassle, can consume it as a binary dependency. But some folks will want to be sure that we have drawn a bright line between this process and the formal activities of the PMC. > > > -- > lucidimagination.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
