On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > See below > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >> >>> See below. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >>>> >>>>> The dual license makes a difference because if someone wants to make a >>>>> change that Aether doesn't want it can easily be incorporated here since >>>>> the original class could be taken and modified as necessary. >>>> >>>> Makes no difference. You could fork it at Github makes changes, deploy a >>>> binary and consume it. >>> >>> We have been told by the VP of legal we cannot do this. >>> >> >> It can't be for legal reasons. They are telling you that you don't have the >> right to take a codebase and fork it for which the license allows? For which >> Apache 3rd party policies states you can consume as a binary? I'm not saying >> you want to do this but I can't see how you're legally not entitled to do >> this. >> > > It is not for legal reasons. The policy is that we cannot fork software whose > copyright owners do not wish us to do so. >
So then you can't fork any version of Aether. So why are we continuing this discussion? Be a committer on Aether, you're then free to do what you like -- and anyone else for that matter -- and we can get on with releasing 3.0.4 Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
