Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-22 Thread Tim Ellison
It seems that all roads lead back to the discussion of licensing and philosophy. Even that has degenerated into name calling which is unhelpful for building a harmonious and inclusive community. While I understand perfectly that unifying the existing efforts in J2SE-space is a goal of Harmony, I

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 05:52 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: What do you have to negotiate? We want to define an interface for the VM and Class library that is 100% usable by anyone and everyone. I always imagined that we'd define the interface, and then each do an independent

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:03 +1000, Peter Donald wrote: For Harmony we can lead by example. We are starting here with a clean slate. Lets not by default adopt a policy that would prevent adoption of the code by most of the existing projects. I started this effort together with the

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-20 Thread netsql
Mark Wielaard wrote: is like putting up a huge sign: Proprietary software hoarders welcome! Long haired freaky GNU people stay out!. Which isn't fun since my best friends are long haired freaky GNU people :) This is puting it in terms I understand ;-) .V

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-15 Thread Leo Simons
On 15-07-2005 08:40, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For code samples, we want to take them in via JIRA, for tracking reasons. Now, given that we're rather attached to the Apache License here at the ASF, I'm not sure we wish to tangle with getting dual licenses for contributions

RE: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-15 Thread Renaud BECHADE
:45 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [legal] Mailing list policy On 15-07-2005 08:40, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For code samples, we want to take them in via JIRA, for tracking reasons. Now, given that we're rather attached to the Apache License here

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Jul 13, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi, Most of this seems common sense. And I am a bit surprised people feel that it needs to be spelled out. But it is probably good to make the intentions completely clear even for a public list. Just one little nitpick. On Wed, 2005-07-13 at

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Donald
Mark Wielaard wrote: But shouldn't this go both ways - should not anything contributed to any of those projects be able to be shared with Harmony? AFAIK many of the contributors make a conscious decision about which licenses they will or will not contribute their work under. We can clearly

[legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
I'm focused on bringing our legal framework issues to conclusion. (I have a long flight today, so expect to see something COB today...) However, there's an issue that's been brought to my attention from several people, and I wish propose that we explicitly state our mailing list policies,

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Tim Ellison
I agree with doing this. Ideally it is something that would appear on the Foundation website, i.e. not just for Project Harmony, but making it a clear policy is certainly the right thing to do. FWIW the IETF do an equivalent thing (http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html) and even have it written on a

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Jul 13, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: I agree with doing this. Ideally it is something that would appear on the Foundation website, i.e. not just for Project Harmony, but making it a clear policy is certainly the right thing to do. Yes - I'm going to help get an ASF-wide

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Leo Simons
NOT A CONTRIBUTION Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I propose the following is added to the top of the mailing list page on the site (I've added and published, currently marked as proposed) and included in the welcome message for each subscriber, and posted once a month to all lists as part of a

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Leo Simons wrote: NOT A CONTRIBUTION Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I propose the following is added to the top of the mailing list page on the site (I've added and published, currently marked as proposed) and included in the welcome message for each subscriber,

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread usman bashir
But i would say these are few things that are though to common to all of us but it is better to be arranged that if some novice are coming then they can not damage our intentions and put us into some legal issues. thnx again geir On 7/13/05, Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Leo Simons
NOT A CONTRIBUTION* Mark Wielaard wrote: Just one little nitpick. Heh. On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:22 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: The terms and conditions that apply to your Contributions are defined by either a contributor license agreement (CLA) signed by you and/or your employer

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 21:50 +0200, Leo Simons wrote: NOT A CONTRIBUTION* LIKEWISE. Mark Wielaard wrote: Just one little nitpick. Heh. Could we not use the Apache License, Version 2.0. But state something like are in the public domain. (Or use APL/GPL-dual license, LGPL,

RE: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-13 Thread Renaud BECHADE
:23 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [legal] Mailing list policy I'm focused on bringing our legal framework issues to conclusion. (I have a long flight today, so expect to see something COB today...) However, there's an issue that's been brought to my attention from several