On Thu, Jul 11, 2013, at 08:57 AM, Yuri Z wrote: > I think Kirill raises here an important question - i.e. what should be > the > relations between the Apache Wave project and other WIAB based products. > The issue is a bit tricky, because as I see it - Apache Wave cannot > endorse > or promote other commercial projects on one hand, but on the other hand > it > would be great to have many WIAB based servers - including third party > servers like wiab.pro, which can inter-operate with each other and > contribute back to the main project. > In my opinion, the solution would be like this: > 1. The third party demo servers will be put in different section and we > will clearly state that those servers are not endorsed by Apache. > 2. Only servers that are satisfy the following conditions will be > considered legitimate: > a) WIAB based > b) Free to use > c) Actively contribute back to Apache Wave. > > I think such a solution will allow to grow the Apache Wave community and > provide information about third party WIAB based servers that take part > in > WIAB development. > > What you think?
I think you have captured the issues well. I personally would say that the main question is that there is no bias. We can have a page that lists: * free WIAB based servers * for cost WIAB based servers * WIAB compatible non-WIAB wave servers So long as what someone has fits into one of these categories, we can list it. I'd say we can leave the 'contributing back' element to them. The license doesn't require it, and if WIAB really takes off, they'll struggle to maintain a compatible fork, so will learn by experience the necessity for getting your fixes into the mainline codebase. Upayavira
