On Feb 12, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
As some of you have noticed, the code available in jakarta-slide/proposals/jcrri has been removed.
For those of you who are not aware of what that is, JCR (Java Content Repository API) is also known as JSR-170.
A while ago, Stefan Guggisberg was granted commit access on the Slide CVS module to work on the reference implementation of JSR-170. Stefan's main job at Day is exactly that: implement the API and give feedback to the expert group. (Day is the leading force behind JCR and David, here copied, is the spec lead)
Now, the intention to give early access to the JCR reference implementation (JCR-RI) was to share development costs across other parties.
Well, it turned out that not only it didn't get traction (which is not surprising, given the fact that the specification is not yet publicly available), but it resorted in major abuse of that code by some other software products that looked at that code as it represented the *real* JCR API and went around saying that they were compliant with the JCR API.
They legally can't. You can't be compatible w/ an API w/o passing the TCK. There is no TCK yet. What are the licensing terms for the JSR?
[no pointing fingers here, just stating the facts]
The intention of the JCRRI proposal was rather harmless: help creating a community around it, and hoping to resort slide development with it [the community was mostly dead at that time]
It is evident, today, that:
1) Slide resorted by itself
2) Until JSR170 is in public review, it would be foolish to expect any reasonable contribution from an open development community
3) The JCR specification is feature complete (just passed JCP internal community review) but it's far from being solidified on the details. This makes having the RI available during the making dangerous as other people might incorporate it in their products and ship it, without indicating that this is an implementation of a JCR "working-draft", not of the official API that JCR is going to be (and nobody knows, today, what that really is)
Again, they can't do that, legally.
How are the spec materials licensed?
geir
-- Geir Magnusson Jr 203-247-1713(m) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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