Project Wonder is BSD-licensed, WOLips was Apache licensed the last time I checked... Both licenses are ASF-friendly (obviously) and that by itself gets us pretty far.
The practical requirement to start releasing all this code as "Apache WOSomething" is to track down all contributors and ask them to submit a simple Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to Apache (http://www.apache.org/licenses/). So that fully covers us and answers your question. I know lots of people submitted code over the years. Hope that a significant % of them are still reachable. Once you do that, you have fully "vetted" code against any future copyright claims, protecting the releasing entity (Apache or your own Foundation) and its end users. This is also a requirement for an Apache-endorsed release. Andrus On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > This is a great idea. But before, I think we need to figure out who "owns" > Wonder and WOLips... > >> I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. >> >> Here is a crazy idea - maybe instead of starting a new non-profit, the >> community should consider taking the open source parts of the WO code and >> join the Apache Software Foundation. The benefits are the following: >> >> * WOCommunity will become a top level project (TLP) under one of the most >> recognized open source brands, exposing it to many more eyes compared to now. >> * Apache has advanced and time-proven governing process that already works. >> No legal expense or effort is required. >> * Apache is the best place out there for community building, code legal >> clearance and preservation of software projects under the ASL 2.0. >> * Somebody will watch your infrastructure for you. >> * You can organize your own conference and unconference events together with >> the Apache Conference Committee, or present yourself during bigger Apache >> events like ApacheCon. >> * You'll have a chance to hang out with some pretty serious geeks (not sure >> if that's a benefit ;)). >> >> But of course if you go this way, you'll have to become Apache and work on >> achieving consensus with a much larger group of people on issues that go >> beyond the code. And of course you may have different objectives than the >> ones that I cited (community building, code legal clearance and >> preservation). >> >> But give it a thought. Considering that WO core is not open source, this >> will be creating an interesting precedent, so I called it crazy above, but I >> think it is certainly doable. >> >> Cheers, >> Andrus >> >> >> On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: >>> Good morning everyone, >>> >>> As you may know, we want to register the association as a non-profit >>> organization in Canada. Since this is the first time I'm doing this, I >>> would like input from you for the by-laws. You can find a draft in the wiki: >>> >>> http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOCOM/Organization+Incorporation >>> >>> If you have comments to make about them, please add them in the wiki, or >>> post to the [email protected] mailing list (send an email to >>> [email protected] to subscribe). >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
