Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Christian Müller
Hadrian, thanks for the excellent summary. Best, Christian On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: > I though Ross was very clear in his explanation, but apparently not... > **Unfortunately this thread (happens too often > at the ASF) is digressing into hypothetical, vague and p

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Hadrian Zbarcea
I though Ross was very clear in his explanation, but apparently not... Unfortunately this thread (happens too often at the ASF) is digressing into hypothetical, vague and philosophical discussions. Quoting Ross: "this *is* completely different". As an aside, I personally don't consider subscr

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 28 September 2012 02:41, Rob Weir wrote: > > ... > >> Specific example. OpenOffice podling has signed up for a security >> mailing list where we receive security-related bug reports from >> LibreOffice, an open source project that is LGPL

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Ross Gardler
On 28 September 2012 02:41, Rob Weir wrote: ... > Specific example. OpenOffice podling has signed up for a security > mailing list where we receive security-related bug reports from > LibreOffice, an open source project that is LGPL/MPL, not ALv2. We do > this by subscribing our security list

Re: Some clarification needed for Apache Extra projects - Apache Extra in specific

2012-09-28 Thread Ross Gardler
I refer back to my original response. apache-extras is not intended to be a way to route around legal and community policies here at the ASF. I believe that what you propose does just that regardless of the license choice and distribution mechanism. You propose using ASF infrastructure for everyth