JBoss Group, as caretaker of the JBoss project, has recently decided to remove CVS access committers for a few of our committers. We do not remove from CVS without good reason nor without just cause. These are the reasons for the removals:
1. These individuals have refused to discuss design issues on our public forums. It is crucial to have a public record of design discussions so that others may particpate in future work.
Good point, but they can have another one: developer's forums are been hosted on JBoss Group's site, not the JBoss project's site (why not ot use Sourceforge mail lists for this?). May be they would like not to transfer their IP to the JBoss Group, IMHO. I can be wrong.
2. More importantly, we have learned that they have forked JBoss. We also believe they are preparing to submit it, or some derivation, to the new Apache Geronimo project which would violate copyright and LGPL. Our proof?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elba
They did this on August 5, after you droped them from the project, isn't it?
What I understand they will try to separate their IP from the JBoss Group's, so they can contribute _their_ code to Apache under ASL. They have the right to do so.
But I guess it would be better if JBoss Group and CDN folks try to resolve the IP issues privately without all this buzz.
3. There is just too much conflict of interest of developers working on two different J2EE projects that are being developed under two very different open-source licenses.
Good point. Agree.
JBoss Group believes strongly in the LGPL license and will protect all copyrights held by any JBoss contributor.
Yes, but contributor has the right to contribute their code to another project under any license they choose, if they did not transfer their rights to the JBoss Group. I do not beleive that anybody outside JBoss Group did this.
Having CVS, it is simple (yet time consuming) to find out, who contributed any chunk of code.
Vlad
P.S. I am not trying to judge you folks, I just have to know what's going on here, and I definitely do not like all this silent undercover moves from both sides.
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