To you as well, Weiwei Wang. You can theoretically release your project under a license that is very similar to the Apache license at any time, presuming you are licensing rights related to your project. To create a project that is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, you should probably start with the Incubator project: http://incubator.apache.org/
Put briefly, this is what the Incubator does: ... WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with accepting new products into the Foundation, providing guidance and support to help each new product engender their own collaborative community, educating new developers in the philosophy and guidelines for collaborative development as defined by the members of the Foundation, and proposing to the board the promotion of such products to independent PMC status once their community has reached maturity. ... RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC be and hereby is responsible for the acceptance and oversight of new products submitted or proposed to become part of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is responsible for providing guidance and ensuring that subprojects under its purview develop products according to the Foundation's philosophy and guidelines for collaborative development; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Incubator PMC is responsible for regularly evaluating products under its purview and making the determination in each case of whether the product should be abandoned, continue to receive guidance and support, or proposed to the board for promotion to full project status as part of an existing or new Foundation PMC; and be it further ... Source: http://incubator.apache.org/official/resolution.html Best of luck! -h ----- Original Message ---- From: Weiwei Wang <ww.wang...@gmail.com> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Wed, December 23, 2009 9:41:56 PM Subject: How to get a apache public license Merry Christamas, guys, I haven't taken part in any open source activties and currently I want to make my project open source under apache public license? What should i do? Apply for a license? and where to apply? -- Weiwei Wang Alex Wang 王巍巍 Room 403, Mengmin Wei Building Computer Science Department Gulou Campus of Nanjing University Nanjing, P.R.China, 210093 Homepage: http://cs.nju.edu.cn/rl/weiweiwang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
