Re: [Htmlunit-user] Should HtmlUnit move to Apache Foundation? - Daniel Gredler - net.sourceforge.lists.htmlunit-user

10 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.htmlunit-userRe: [Htmlunit-user] Should HtmlUnit m...

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Marc Guillemot	Jan 6, 2009 11:53 am
Tom Anderson	Jan 6, 2009 12:34 pm
Mike Bowler	Jan 6, 2009 1:25 pm
Daniel Gredler	Jan 6, 2009 4:44 pm
Ahmed Ashour	Jan 6, 2009 9:51 pm
Marc Guillemot	Jan 8, 2009 6:16 am
Francis Hitchens	Jan 8, 2009 8:14 am
Hernan Soulages	Jan 8, 2009 12:55 pm
George Dinwiddie	Jan 9, 2009 7:57 am
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Subject:	Re: [Htmlunit-user] Should HtmlUnit move to Apache Foundation?	Actions...
From:	Daniel Gredler (djgr...@gmail.com)
Date:	Jan 6, 2009 4:44:54 pm
List:	net.sourceforge.lists.htmlunit-user

Hi all,

As a committer, I'm not looking forward to the additional bookkeeping required by the Foundation, but I think that on the whole this would probably be a good thing. It also might be a chance to rename the project ;-)

We would probably need to go through our dependencies and check all of their licenses to make sure everything is kosher; however, as far as the Rhino fork is concerned, I would probably suggest spinning it out into its own SourceForge-hosted MPL-licensed project (we don't spend that much time on the fork, anyway -- comparatively speaking) and then we can just reference that library from the HtmlUnit codebase (see http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html for license compatibility Q&A).

So all in all, I think this would be a good step, as long as the committers understand that there are extra rules to abide by.

Take care,

Daniel

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Marc Guillemot <mgui...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

Hi HtmlUnit users,

first I want to precise that I have no idea if we would be welcome. I've just talked to some persons involved in the Apache Foundation.

*Do you think that HtmlUnit should move to Apache Foundation?*

Personally I mainly see following advantages - more visibility -> more users -> more contributions => more improvements - the copyright would be hold by the Apache Foundation and not by Mike's company (as creator of the project) -> better "feeling" for contributors -> a bit more confidence for users

as well probably as a few inconvenients: - we wouldn't be as free as we are currently and would have to respect the Foundation's rules - particularly, I don't know if/how we could keep our Rhino fork (that is currently only a snapshot but that allows to control the release dates)

Cheers, Marc.

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