Rhino

[Ralph Goers <Ra...@digitalinsight.com>]

What ever happened with the Rhino licensing issue?

 

Ralph

Re: Rhino

[Antonio Gallardo <ag...@agssa.net>]

Steven Noels dijo:
> On 22 Apr 2004, at 17:58, Ralph Goers wrote:
>
>> What ever happened with the Rhino licensing issue?
>
> It has been pushed down several levels on my stack because of other
> emergencies. :-(
>
> The basic effort requested by the Mozilla team is to contact each and
> every past contributor of Rhino (about 40 people) and ask for a license
> change and copyright reassignment, so that we have something
> ASF-distribution-compatible. Then, we also need to figure out how to
> re-integrate Chris' changes into the official trunk, on which Antonio
> should be working on through some students at his local university.
>
> All-in-all, I'm a bit pessimistic about the chances for success if not
> more people join the effort. There's a willingness from the Mozilla
> front to relicense using a more liberal license, but the real work
> needs to be done by us, and is not to be underestimated.

Hi Steven:

I found the Spamassassin project is making a similar work:

http://taint.org/wk/SAContribList

I wonder if we can build up a similar page to track the status of or
archievement.

WDYT?

Best Regards,

Antonio Gallardo

Re: Rhino

[Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>]

On 22 Apr 2004, at 17:58, Ralph Goers wrote:

> What ever happened with the Rhino licensing issue?

It has been pushed down several levels on my stack because of other 
emergencies. :-(

The basic effort requested by the Mozilla team is to contact each and 
every past contributor of Rhino (about 40 people) and ask for a license 
change and copyright reassignment, so that we have something 
ASF-distribution-compatible. Then, we also need to figure out how to 
re-integrate Chris' changes into the official trunk, on which Antonio 
should be working on through some students at his local university.

All-in-all, I'm a bit pessimistic about the chances for success if not 
more people join the effort. There's a willingness from the Mozilla 
front to relicense using a more liberal license, but the real work 
needs to be done by us, and is not to be underestimated.

Gory details so far can be found at 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236108

</Steven>
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