(moving discussion to incubator general list - others may be interested in the outcome of this decision, as an example of how one company does a software grant.)
Roy T. Fielding wrote on Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:45 PM: > Actually, for legal reasons, it would be better for Apache not to > have the development history of the BEA code base -- that history > might include the deletion of code that could not be open sourced, > for whatever reason, and then we would be liable for making it public. Right - I don't think it makes sense for a company to contribute the change history before contribution. As of today, the ASF should have BEA's software grant for Beehive. Exhibit A simply reads, "Beehive", which represents all files that make up the forthcoming initial code drop into the "incubator/beehive" SVN directory. As far as the actual code drop, I was planning on just asking one of the BEA employee/committers to simply check-in the entire code base into SVN, as BEA did with the initial XMLBeans contribution. However, we could also ftp a tarball of the same code if anyone thinks it would be preferable to also do this (and if so, where?). Personally, I think a software grant for "Beehive", followed by one large initial check-in from a BEA employee into the "beehive directory, should be pretty clear. Does this sound good to everyone? Cliff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
