Re: donation of project

2004-01-10 Thread Leo Simons
Matt Liotta wrote: I didn't see a reply from anyone in regard to my message below. Just curious if the interested parties have seen it. saw your message, no time to look at it yet, sorry. I've flagged things for follow-up later on. busy as always :D cheers, - Leo Simons --

Re: donation of project

2004-01-09 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Matt Liotta wrote: I didn't see a reply from anyone in regard to my message below. Just curious if the interested parties have seen it. Yes, thanks a bunch. You may want to announce it also here: http://jazilla.sourceforge.net/ They are workin on a Java-only browser. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi

Re: donation of project

2004-01-09 Thread Steven Noels
On Jan 8, 2004, at 9:16 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: I didn't see a reply from anyone in regard to my message below. Just curious if the interested parties have seen it. How about sending a short announcement mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] telling what you have done so far, with what

Re: donation of project

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Liotta
Yes. However, if you want to have more audience, I suggest that you also post an announcement on freshmeat.net. I had the impression that specific members of this list were waiting on the source code to be made available. I hadn't really intended on doing a very public announcement like on Freshm

Re: donation of project

2004-01-08 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Matt Liotta wrote: I didn't see a reply from anyone in regard to my message below. Just curious if the interested parties have seen it. Yes. However, if you want to have more audience, I suggest that you also post an announcement on freshmeat.net. Jochen -

Re: donation of project

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Liotta
I didn't see a reply from anyone in regard to my message below. Just curious if the interested parties have seen it. Matt Liotta Montara Software, Inc. http://www.MontaraSoftware.com On Jan 4, 2004, at 11:03 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: From reading this list's archives it looks like I missed a couple

Re: donation of project

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Liotta
From reading this list's archives it looks like I missed a couple of messages, so I have decided to join the list in the interim. Anyway, based on the responses I have decided to go ahead and release the code on Sourceforge under the Apache License. You can find the project at http://sourceforg

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread Leo Simons
Hi Matt, (IANAL) Matt Liotta wrote: Thanks for all the responses. At this point, I am reluctant to release the code under an Apache style license without a community behind it. I don't want to see our code go into some proprietary project and never benefit the community because the actual ope

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread David Jencks
While I certainly appreciate your concerns about releasing under a bsd/apache style license without a community, please also consider the difficulties of relicensing. If you change the license from [L]GPL to bsd/apache, you will need to get something like written agreement from every contribu

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Jeudi, 1 jan 2004, à 17:57 Europe/Zurich, Matt Liotta a écrit : ...Right now my thinking is that we will release the code under the GPL and put it up on Sourceforge Note that you can use an Apache-like license on SourceForge. The chaperon and jfor projects, for example, are hosted there b

Re: donation of project

2004-01-01 Thread Matt Liotta
Thanks for all the responses. At this point, I am reluctant to release the code under an Apache style license without a community behind it. I don't want to see our code go into some proprietary project and never benefit the community because the actual open release was handled incorrectly. Rig

Re: donation of project

2003-12-28 Thread Leo Simons
Hi Matt, Matt Liotta wrote: > Nicola wrote: I am personally very interested in this, having worked on a similar project. In any case, it's a very interesting thing for Java in general to have such a component opensourced. Because of this, I will see to do all I can to help you. +1 (which means

Re: donation of project

2003-12-26 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Your administrative burden is *much* smaller. For example, by simply registering the project, you get a CVS server, a mailing list system, forums, a bug tracking system and all that stuff automatically. I'm not sure that I understood the point. The infrastructure team doe

RE: donation of project

2003-12-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Matt Liotta wrote: > the proposal doesn't seem to be inline with the document in two > ways. First, there is no active development community for it. > Second, [we] are no longer doing development on it A community is important. It does not need to, and indeed it would be better if it did not, com

RE: donation of project

2003-12-24 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Your administrative burden is *much* smaller. For example, by simply > registering the project, you get a CVS server, a mailing list system, > forums, a bug tracking system and all that stuff automatically. I'm not sure that I understood the point. The infrastructure team does all of those t

Re: donation of project

2003-12-24 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Matt Liotta wrote: Indeed, the proposal doesn't seem to be inline with the document in two ways. First, there is no active development community for it. Second, while the project was originally commercial in nature, we are no longer doing development on it as it currently suits our needs. That

Re: donation of project

2003-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
I am personally very interested in this, having worked on a similar project. In any case, it's a very interesting thing for Java in general to have such a component opensourced. Because of this, I will see to do all I can to help you. Thanks. As for accepting it at Apache, we decide not on tec

Re: donation of project

2003-12-22 Thread Danny Angus
Hi Matt, > My company is interested in donating a project to the Apache >Foundation. Specifically, we have created an updated HTML editor kit A swing Editor Kit? Cool. d. *** The information in this e-mail is confiden

Re: donation of project

2003-12-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Matt Liotta wrote: I am not sure if this the correct place, so if not I would hope someone could point me in the correct direction. Additionally, I am not subscribed to this list, so please reply directly. My company is interested in donating a project to the Apache Foundation. Specifically, w

Re: donation of project

2003-12-21 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Matt Liotta wrote: My company is interested in donating a project to the Apache Foundation. Specifically, we have created an updated HTML editor kit for Java 1.4 that supports the latest W3C standards for both HTML and CSS. The JDK currently only supports HTML 3 and CSS 1. Additionally, we have