Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 22:29 +0000, Tim Ellison wrote: > >>It is worth noting that many of us are here specifically due to the >>terms of the ASL > > > When we started our harmony collaboration project half of the people > signing the announcement were from projects that are distributed under > terms different from the ASL. But we all felt we should endorse it since > we wanted to make this project into as large a free software ecosystem > around a free alternative to the proprietary j2se implementations as > possible. For several of us the ASL is even too restrictive to be used > in our own projects. That is why the harmony project encourages all > contributions to be available under terms that are also GPL-compatible. > At the same time we are working from the inside to influence the apache > rules to allow us to more effectively work together and lobby the > various foundation boards to clear up any (perceived) license > incompatibilities. Lets make Harmony into that collaborative project > that we envisioned when we started it and be open to the whole > community.
Understood and agreed -- so despite the current 'restrictions' that preclude unfettered participation in both directions we should certainly be seeking out opportunities for such collaboration. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.