Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-12 Thread Bob Arnson
Rob Mensching wrote: 2.  I've never found the Apache assignment agreement either but I never looked hard. MSN Search is great... http://www.apache.org/licenses/ Contributor License Agreements The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-11 Thread Rob Mensching
, 2006 11:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Michael Luke'; 'Albert van Peppen'; 'Wix-Devs'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements   Rob, Take a look at the Contributing section o

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-11 Thread Shmarya Rubenstein
Rob, Take a look at the Contributing section on the NUnitForms project: http://nunitforms.sourceforge.net/cvs.html By the way, you mentioned that Apache requires a similar agreement, but there doesn't seem to be any mention of it at all on the Apache httpd server's development page (http://ht

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Frederik Carlier wrote: > But yes, that is essentially what I am talking about: a place where we > can put good code, that can't make it into WiX because of people not > trusting Microsoft, a stubborn boss, the WiX developers having a bad > hair day or whatever reason. > That's not the same thin

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-11 Thread Frederik Carlier
> > [robmen] I truly hope it won't come to that. Creating a separate > project > > would essentially fork the development of the WiX toolset. > It shouldn't. I assume Frederik was talking about something like the > NAnt-Contrib project. It serves the same purpose as an incubator or lab > -- a plac

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Rob Mensching
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; 'Frederik Carlier' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements Rob Mensching wrote: > [robmen] I truly hope it won't come to that. Creating a separate project > would essentially fork the development of t

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Bob Arnson
Rob Mensching wrote: > [robmen] I truly hope it won't come to that. Creating a separate project > would essentially fork the development of the WiX toolset. It shouldn't. I assume Frederik was talking about something like the NAnt-Contrib project. It serves the same purpose as an incubator or l

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Rob Mensching
> I'd love to be able to contribute to WiX (in particular > MSBuild support and Votive) but the hoop-jumping > required to complete the assignment agreement totally > put me off. I know what you are saying here. The assignment agreement has been something I've been arguing against since the begi

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Rob Mensching
> I think it would be worth creating a space where people > can contribute their own additions to WiX that are of > signification value but did not make it through the legal > process. A WiX-contrib project, or something like that. [robmen] I truly hope it won't come to that. Creating a separat

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Luke
Rob, I'd love to be able to contribute to WiX (in particular MSBuild support and Votive) but the hoop-jumping required to complete the assignment agreement totally put me off. Why the requirement for us to print off and post a piece of paper to Microsoft? All other open source projects I've work

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Bob Arnson
Frederik Carlier wrote: > I think it would be worth creating a space where people can contribute > their own additions to WiX that are of signification value but did not > make it through the legal process. A WiX-contrib project, or something > like that. > So go ahead and create it. > I still

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements

2006-07-10 Thread Frederik Carlier
I think it would be worth creating a space where people can contribute their own additions to WiX that are of signification value but did not make it through the legal process. A WiX-contrib project, or something like that. I still think the "single copyright owner" argument is void; anyone is fre