proposed ammendment to mirroring policy
There has been a lot of discussion about the addition of mirrors.playboy.com/apache to the mirrors list. Some of the objections are related to moral issues. The line for barring mirrors appears to be different for everyone. Some draw the line at spammers and Indiana Jones' arch-foes, but not at Playboy. At the very least, I believe some of the strong objections are rooted in the desire for Apache not to appear to endorse the business activities of the entities hosting its mirrors. I have noticed there is no disclaimer on the mirror download pages or mirrors list that disassociates Apache from the mirrors themselves. Therefore, I propose that we add a disclaimer, whose exact wording is to be determined by the board, expressing that the presence of a mirror on the download pages and mirrors list is not to be construed as an endorsement of the organization hosting the mirror. Something along the lines of: Disclaimer: The presence of a mirror on this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation of the organization's business or other activities. The Apache Software Foundation lists all mirror sites that request to be listed and meet the criteria specified at: http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html If that's done, then all further refinements of the mirroring policy need only be added to http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html. I have no suggestions regarding what further refinements should be, but believe the addition of a disclaimer will satisfy the concern expressed by some that Apache may appear to be condoning the activities of the owner of a mirror. daniel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proposed ammendment to mirroring policy
--On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:26 AM -0400 Daniel F. Savarese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: The presence of a mirror on this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation of the organization's business or other activities. The Apache Software Foundation lists all mirror sites that request to be listed and meet the criteria specified at: http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html I honestly don't think we need to go this far. More needless legal mumble-jumble creeping into the ASF. Yuck. -- justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proposed ammendment to mirroring policy
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 17:26, Daniel F. Savarese wrote: Disclaimer: The presence of a mirror on this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation of the organization's business or other activities. The Apache Software Foundation lists all mirror sites that request to be listed and meet the criteria specified at: http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html +1 Excellent idea. BTW: They are using Apache for dont_name_it.com and announce it on every HTTP request: Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_jk/1.1.0 TKTAuth/1.3 Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]+49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ RedHat Certified Engineer -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire Linux, Java, perl, Solaris -- Consulting, Training, Development Fighting for one's political stand is an honorable action, but re- fusing to acknowledge that there might be weaknesses in one's position - in order to identify them so that they can be remedied - is a large enough problem with the Open Source movement that it deserves to be on this list of the top five problems. --Michelle Levesque, Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
