Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-06 Thread Henri Yandell
So you include it in conversations - there would also need to be discussions on the Glassfish trademark/any domains. Nothing as standardized as the software license grant others have referred to, but I would expect it to be 'if a registered trademark/domain, transferring to ASF; if not a

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-05 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Reza Rahman wrote: > Yep, understood. We will give it an honest effort > No doubt, we appreciate the sincerity. Note that there are multiple aspect that would require license grants and provisions that complicate any Java-ecosystem grant

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-05 Thread Greg Stein
To be clear, we are talking about: http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Reza Rahman wrote: > Yep, understood. We will give it an honest effort. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 3, 2016, at 6:30 PM, John D. Ament

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-05 Thread Reza Rahman
Obviously I need to take this up in earnest after Friday. In the meanwhile let me know what I need to do in order to get myself setup for this. Anything that is worth it is never easy. This matters enough to try and there are many that will be with us, even inside Oracle. > On Mar 3, 2016, at

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-05 Thread Reza Rahman
Yep, understood. We will give it an honest effort. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 3, 2016, at 6:30 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > > You need to start with convincing oracle to provide an SGA for the entire > glassfish codebase. Your best bet is to start that before you leave

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-03 Thread John D. Ament
You need to start with convincing oracle to provide an SGA for the entire glassfish codebase. Your best bet is to start that before you leave oracle. John On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:08 PM Reza Rahman wrote: > Obviously I need to take this up in earnest after Friday. In

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-03 Thread David Blevins
The procedure would be identical to the OpenOffice donation from Oracle to Apache. Oracle would have to sign a software grant to Apache and contributors would have to iCLAs. Apache requires copyright owners to vouch they are the original authors and have given permission for their IP to be

Re: Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-03 Thread John D. Ament
Hi Martin, Reza, The biggest hurdle would likely be Oracle signing an SGA for the glassfish codebase. Not to mention that all dependencies are currently GPL/CDDL dual licensed. John On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:17 PM Martin Gainty wrote: > Looking for procedures for

Possible ASF Incubator Project transfer..

2016-03-03 Thread Martin Gainty
Looking for procedures for transferring control of currently un-maintained glassfish J2EE Server from Oracle to ASF incubator project Thanks and Regards Martin Gainty Subject: Re: [gf-users] Re: Farewell to Oracle To: mgai...@hotmail.com From: reza_rah...@lycos.com Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016