---- Legal issues, PMCs/Members/Committers, etc. ---- Unfortunately, this is an area that some people have concern about, but few of us seem to be actual lawyers with the experience to accurately describe the details... And when it comes to legal issues, the details ARE the important stuff.
In terms of liability, remember it's a fairly unlikely thing to come up anyway. (Of course that's just some handwaving, I know) What's the real state currently? I don't know, since I'm not a lawyer (and I haven't re-read the whole bylaws and other official ASF policies that make up our legal corporate definitions). I'm not even sure I should try to paraphrase. If there is a solution that can get effective liability protection to every committer without having to change the whole structure of the ASF, I would support it. But I'm not sure of the best way to do this. One idea is to effectively have every committer also be a member of their project's PMC; in theory since the PMC is the officially recognized oversigh body by the ASF, then PMC members are somehow covered. But we'd really need to be sure of the details first. Sorry, I just don't have good ideas on this issue yet. 8-( Note also that if you're concerned with the future ASF license 2.0, then you should consider joining the licensing@ list where that's being discussed. Subscriptions are moderated but (IMO) any active committer who has an interest should be able to subscribe. Oh, and talking about legal issues, some disclaimers: I'm speaking solely on behalf of myself here; I am a Member of the ASF; I'm an active committer on the xml-commons and xml-xalan projects; I try to listen on general@xml, general@jakarta, infrastructure@, licensing@, and community@; I work at IBM; and I have cats. ===== - Shane <eof .sig="'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a very scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less'" "Oohayu oyod?!"=gis. /> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
