On 4 Feb 2011, at 14:35 , Toni Menzel wrote: > Speaking of legal entity: its stucks me a bit that ASF plus Eclipse > Foundation can do it. > Sure, more big companies behind it but i wonder if it makes sense to do that > so we comply to the "Open Source TCK License" - which is - if i read that > correctly, free of charge.
Only individuals can become a committer or member of the ASF, so that's not it. But it's probably the fact that the ASF itself is a foundation and as such a legal entity. > In germany we have this Eingetragener Verein" thing in order to become a > legal entity for all kinds of non commercial activities. Probably too much > effort just to get the TCK but maybe there is more behind this (being able to > receive tax deductable donations etc.) It would probably also mean that there would be more required than just "creating a new Jira account" to sign up for OPS4J, if you want access to the TCK. > Another thing is what it takes for an individual to have a look at the TCK > (not actually using it) in order to see if it makes sense to improve it ? > Just thinking because it has something to do with test/verification of OSGi > components .. Why not build an open source TCK instead? If you start with collecting all the "integration tests" for existing open source implementation, you might actually have a reasonable starting point. At Luminis we did some work on a testing framework [1] (as you know, based on Pax Exam) that contains several tests for open source framework implementations and displays the results in a nice matrix [2]. Why not join forces and extend that together? Greetings, Marcel [1] http://opensource.luminis.net/wiki/display/OSGITEST/OSGi+testing+framework [2] http://opensource.luminis.net/svn/OSGITESTRESULTS/trunk/index.html
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