Re: [OpenPGP] Moving Away From DSA and SHA-1

2009-08-11 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: 1024 bit keys and SHA-1 links are currently considered safe so there's no reason to believe that apache keys have been compromised. transition statements [1] in a trusted location will probably be good enough to convince most people to

Java Service Wrapper

2008-04-02 Thread Roy T. Fielding
The Java Service Wrapper is being used (and sometimes redistributed) by many of our Java projects (ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, Geronimo, OFBiz, Tomcat). It was formerly available under an MIT/BSD style license, as can be seen in the 3.2.3 version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wrapper/ More

Re: Community Guidelines (was Code of Conduct)

2007-06-29 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jun 28, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: I have a question about this part of the guidelines: Project source code and documentation must be donated to the ASF under a moin-www.png Contributor's License Agreement. Donated source code and documentation must carry the ASF

Re: women@a.o mail list

2006-07-28 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail list was created in August 2005; the initial charter is at http://wiki.apache.org/Women/InitialCharter . We now want to take it to the next step and create a formal committee (see the forwarded post below).

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 16, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: derby-user@db.apache.org has been grappling with someone who delights in belittling other posters on the list. The topic was raised on women@ (see the thread starting with http://mail-

Re: At what point do you unsubscribe/deny a misbehaving user?

2005-12-16 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: For crying out loud, would you please supply links to the exact posts you consider to be in poor taste and the person's name? I just wasted 10 minutes trying to follow the bread crumbs. You have to make it easier on reviewers -- everyone

STOP CROSSPOSTING to Private/PMC/members lists

2005-06-24 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Under no circumstances is it EVER appropriate to cc a private list when talking in public, or cc a public list when talking in private. I don't care why you think it is appropriate to hit two audiences in a single mail, or why you think your time is more important than everyone else's combined,

Happy Birthday, we are 10

2005-02-27 Thread Roy T . Fielding
proud of what we have accomplished and very grateful to have met so many friends along the way. Cheers, Roy T. Fieldinghttp://roy.gbiv.com/ Chief Scientist, Day Software http://www.day.com

Fwd: W3C Spanish Office’s Standards Tour 2004 to Visit Ten Cities Throughout (News Release)

2004-10-27 Thread Roy T . Fielding
May be of interest to Santiago and friends ... note the prize is a research grant. Roy Begin forwarded message: From: Marie-Claire Forgue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 27, 2004 12:31:38 AM PDT Subject: W3C Spanish Offices Standards Tour 2004 to Visit Ten Cities Throughout (News Release)

Re: [OT] How to prevent abusing Apache priviliges

2004-10-16 Thread Roy T . Fielding
A few weeks ago, many people encouraged Niclas Hedhman not to bring private matters into the public here. Now, some people want this issue brought into public, whereas others say it should be handled only with the Incubator PMC, or possibly the Board. The general at incubator mailing list is a

Re: release management

2004-05-24 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Cutting a release jar/tarball is an individual act, regardless of the person's status as being a committer, on the PMC, or an Apache member. Because none of us are employees, we do not have the right to make acts on behalf of the ASF (the only exception is ASF officers, who are granted that right

Re: The need for international protection for free software

2004-03-17 Thread Roy T. Fielding
A proposed Free Software Act provides an alternative to addressing software licensing through the copyright process. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44100.htm?DE=1 Just kind of an interesting read. Especially if you are Roy, and understand all of the big words. ;-) Interesting, though the

Re: Some Pointers for updating to Apache 2.0 license

2004-02-12 Thread Roy T. Fielding
For those who have not seen it - there are some guidelines (thanks to Roy!) on applying the 2.0 license to code at : http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html Not just me -- thanks to Berin as well, for providing the first draft and getting me off my butt to finish it. Roy

Re: What is a member?

2003-11-27 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Roy Fielding once mentioned that anyone with a history of at least 6 months of sustained contributions was entitled to ASF membership. Not entitled -- deserving of nomination for membership. It still has to be voted on by all of the members, since we are effectively giving that person an equal

Re: FYI: spam/viruses originating from apache.org

2003-06-03 Thread Roy T. Fielding
You wouldn't believe how many are being caught on their way to apache.org addresses; my spamfilter also catches messages bearing this virus. Thousands per day. Hundreds alone to people like myself, Roy, Ralf, and many jakarta mailing lists. Many of the messages do not have attachments, though,

Re: Licensing and modified GPLs (again!)

2003-04-04 Thread Roy T. Fielding
The question is: is that enough to defeat GPL's virality? I'm starting to Defeat isn't quite the right word. It is actually distributed under two licenses, one for unmodified and one for with-modifications. The Apache license also does that, though in our case they are just two clauses in a

Re: Sun and the JCP 2.5

2003-04-02 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Does anyone know why JBoss isn't being granted the scholarship? I read the Happiness is here today JCP 2.5 announcement (http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/new_jcp.html) again and it says qualified achedemic, non-profit and opensource members. I am not sure about the announcement text, but I

Re: Classpath Licensing

2003-02-11 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:30 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I believe Classpath has a special exception for distribution, but, AIUI, that isn't typical of FSF packages. I agree. The only issue for me is whether or not the Classpath packages are a suitable special case that we can use.

Re: licensing issues and jars in Avalon

2003-02-11 Thread Roy T. Fielding
What I find strange in all this discussion about tools that are licensed under LGPL is, why does it matter if you do not use the tool in the actual code of the project. It does not matter in that case. It only matters when use of the code restricts the license under which our own code is

Re: primary distribution location

2003-02-05 Thread Roy T. Fielding
Can I explore the issue a little bit further? The question that usually arises on Ant is not the storing and distribution of LGPL code itself, but the storing of code that links with or depends on the LGPL code. As an example, let's say we want to provide an SSH task for Ant (a recent

Re: primary distribution location

2003-02-05 Thread Roy T. Fielding
The import statement alone is sufficient to make the source code a work based on the Library, which means we could distribute under the terms of section 6. Those terms are viral and disallow binary-only releases, making our product viral because the Apache license does not require redistribution

Re: ApacheWiki RSS feed moved into apachewiki.cgi

2003-01-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
infrastructure, can we have a new mail list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears to have been set up this morning with only you subscribed. Roy

Re: [VOTE] Openness

2002-10-30 Thread Roy T. Fielding
VOTE 1: would you like to make it possible for non-committers to read this mail list thru a web archive? [X] +1 yes, let's make it readable [ ] 0 don't know/don't care [ ] -1 no, let's keep it private VOTE 2: would you like to make it possible for non-committers to fully subscribe to this