Am Samstag, den 27.05.2006, 12:56 +0200 schrieb Stefano Bagnara:
> Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > Serge,
> > 
> >> The term "subproject" is something of a loaded term at Apache
> > 
> > Thanks for posting this.  I'd started and stopped the same e-mail about
> > three times.  Primarily, because I want to doublecheck to make sure that the
> > IP for jSPF and then Postage is handled properly.  We should file IP
> > Clearance forms for each of them.
> 
> I already tried to explain the exact path we followed writing jSPF and 
> the third party code involved.
> I don't have enough knowledge of the IP and copyright notices law and I 
> hoped you could help with this.
> 
> We started from spfjava submitted "with grants for inclusion" by the 
> author (Roger Fullertone).
> 
> We rewrote from scratch the whole parsing and the whole "business" 
> processing algorythm. The only code we now have from spfjava (to be 
> confirmed by Norman) are a few utilities and costant classes and the 
> "MacroExpansion" code. I don't know how much we did change that.

You are right the only think we keep are a few methods in IPAddr, and
the MacroExpand class ( we also change stuff there(.

> 
> We furthermore added unittests based on tests definition files (txt) 
> found at http://www.schlitt.net/spf/tests/tests_v2.1/test.txt (I wrote 
> this to the pmc list 20 days ago ;-) ).
> We then added this tasks to JIRA to track this issues:
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPF-5
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPF-12
> 
> Norman, talking to an SPF developer in IRC found out that the tests were 
> also distributed as part of libspf2 (http://www.libspf2.org/), licensed 
> under the "LGPL or 2-clause BSD".
> 
> jSPF currently depends on dnsjava and log4j for the core library and 
> junit for the unit tests.
> 
> We would really be happy if you can help with this issues.
> 
> Furthermore we are ready for an 1.0b1 release. Norman closed one of the 
> few blocking issues for 1.0 (the website) today. I hope you can help 
> with the release steps, too!

Im not close it ;-) There are still a few things todo. I whould like to
copy the contributor page content of james. Any problems with that ?

> 
> SPF specifications we implement are described here:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4408.txt
> 
> >> For me, the most important issue is that we have only one
> >> committer base across all these.  i.e., we're not going to
> >> add someone exclusively to mime4j or postage.
> > 
> > +1
> 
> +1
> 
> Stefano
> 
+1 
Norman

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