On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Nick Kew <n...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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.
Before proceeding, I would like to seek advice from our counsel. I also want to proceed based on specific patent infringement concerns and not on abstract hypotheticals. However, I don't want to spend valuable time on this until we decide whether or not to accept this project for incubation. However we proceed, I will keep the incubator PMC informed. > -- > Nick Kew > > Available for work, contract or permanent > http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
