Hey Christian, On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote: >>> If you are saying this is compatible with ALv2 ? Then why use Apache >>> Extras instead of just the oodt SVN official repo in Apache ? >> >> But that's exactly the point! It is NOT ALv2 because it seems that Chris' >> project compiles against GPL sources and thus also must be GPL licensed. >> >> Would it be possible to have it under the package org.apacheextras ? >> If we don't even allow that, then we can just close down apacheextras.org - >> because then there is no use for it imo. > > +1 > > Leads me to the question... if I fork an asf project on github and do > some work on it, am I required to change the org.apache namespace? > If no, third parties can release code with the apache namespace (and > they actually do) and then I ask myself why Chris should not be able > to use the namespace. Bingo! That's exactly what I was saying too, Christian. In my case, my "fork" existed even before the ASF Apache OODT "source" existed before we made a source code donation and brought the code to Apache via a Software Grant. The "fork" code still lives in the internal JPL repository but I would like to share it with others, but I couldn't bring it through into the ASF Apache OODT project (via JIRA + Software Grant + Patch/etc.) b/c I wouldn't want to do that to our users, meaning, I wouldn't want to stick them with even a runtime/downstream dependency on an LGPL project. So I've gone to great trouble to refactor the code, make it its own project, and then make it a Plugin to CAS PushPull (it builds to a jar that users can simply drop in to their PushPull deployment's ./lib directory). So, in this fashion, if users want to get these Push Pull plugins (if the default implementations of the FTP protocol that we ship don't work for their FTP sites), they can simply (I thought) go to Apache Extras, svn export the code, build the plugin, and then drop the jar in their existing deployment. If users can't do that due to some effort by ComDev to "police" things that IMHO aren't violations at all, then we aren't serving the ASF very well with Apache Extras and it should be decommissioned. To avoid that nuclear option, I proposed 2 concrete suggestions and even volunteered to work up a patch that implements the one with less sweeping change. IOW, I offered to put my money where my mouth was and do the work to update the docs. Sound good? Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
