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Posted to dev@geronimo.apache.org by Geir Magnusson Jr <ge...@4quarters.com> on 2004/03/01 14:01:17 UTC

Fwd: [All] License change


Begin forwarded message:

> From: dion@multitask.com.au
> Date: March 1, 2004 7:18:36 AM EST
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [All] License change
> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List 
> <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
>
> Geir Magnusson Jr <ge...@4quarters.com> wrote on 27/02/2004 10:35:29 PM:
>
>> As you know, the board of directors of the ASF has approved a new
>> license, v2.0, and has mandated that the entire ASF codebase be moved
>> to it.  Specifically, they require that any code released after March
>> 1, 2004 be placed under this new license.
>>
>> However,  given that snapshots of commons components are created and
>> placed in repositories, and people use sandbox components, which by
>> definition don't have an actual release, it behooves us to not wait
>> until something get released to move to the new license.
>>
>> This process, applied to the Geronimo and it's 26 modules, took 2
>> minutes and 33 seconds, according to the kind soul who did the change.
>> By my math, it should take *5* minutes to do the entire commons.
>
> FYI, it appears to be incomplete.
>
> Several maven files (project.xml, maven.xml, project.properties) for
> example are license-less.
> --
> dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
>
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