On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an > > ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? > > Not at all. Individual authors may contribute their own original works, and > do not give up that right. Furthermore, we can design architectures and > interface specifications that permit pluggability while isolating client > code from the implementation (and license) of the pluggable. Think how JDBC > or JNDI isolate the code from the service provider classes. That doesn't > solve distribution issues caused by licensing, but it does address a coding > issue. > > Right now we're putting a structure -- process and community -- in place. > The goal is to work WITH others. As with all other ASF projects, we'll be > very careful about provenance when accepting code.
But why bother to "work with others"? Why not just join the existing GNU Classpath and Kaffe projects and work within th > > The Apache Harmony Project is about finding the "harmonics" -- projects and > people with whom to collaborate -- bring them together. And don't forget > that we have a bunch of harmonics here already. JNDI code with the > Directory project. JDBC code with Derby. Regex code in Jakarta. APR. > Lots of really good and usable code. And we already have other people > recommending additional harmonics to work with us. And some of the > synergies have just amazing potential. > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
