Victor, I know you intended that. But "use" and "further develop" are two different things. What I was getting at with the license grant thing is the possibility to take your font code and put it FOP code repository (or better XML Graphics Commons when it finally pops into existence, still in the queue with infrastructure). Since it was developed outside the FOP project it wasn't really developed under your Apache CLA. Only you can commit any FOray source code to an ASF code repository, and only if you are are sure that noone else contributed any changes to that code during the development under the FOray project. The other possibility is to get a license grant from you and any other contributor to FOray-Font so we can commit the code ourselves (given we decide to do it).
Just to be clear, these are the possibilities: 1. FOP uses FOray-Font (JAR file in lib directory), no license grant necessary, no FOray sources in an ASF repository. 2. FOP forks FOray-Font, license grants are necessary due to ASF policy. 3. You donate FOray-Font (back) to the ASF, development within FOray stops, FOray uses a JAR from XML Graphics Commons, development continues within the XML Graphics Commons area, license grants are necessary due to ASF policy. You can guess from my earlier comments that my preference would be (3), but that's not up to me. (1) is the easiest way but leaves us with an important dependency on a project that I marked as a one-man-show (which is an assumption). I don't really like (2). You see that we need to define what we're really talking about. On 14.06.2005 14:44:15 Victor Mote wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > No. Licensing is absolutely no problem in this case. FOray is > > distributed under the same license as FOP. What we can't > > simply do is take Victor's (source) code and put it in our > > code repository without Victor doing a grant to the ASF. > > That's a matter of ASF policy. We can add a JAR, however. > > Well, the intent of FOray has always been that its code should be accessible > at every level to Apache and to anyone else who wants to use it. If I need > to make a special grant to make that clear, show me where to sign. > > Victor Mote Jeremias Maerki
