On 9 Jun 2011, at 20:10, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Michael, > > I agree that the ethical thing to do is to inform partners of such matters, > although I still don't know how to guarantee it. And generally speaking, you > might want to treat the specifics of such matters in similarly sensitive > manner as to how you would carefully handle any potential security related > matters that might exist.
Surely now this has been flagged, we can and should proactively address it in incubation. I'd propose to create a "Patent Issues" bug report. We can then call on all participants with knowledge of patent issues to enter them as dependencies of the meta-bug, so that Michael and other interested parties have a focus for related activity at apache.org. I would also suggest that it should be a blocker for graduation that every known patent issue be resolved. That is to say, either a full fix, or failing that a discussion and executive summary sufficient to alert users. -- Nick Kew Available for work, contract or permanent http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
