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Commitment to participate [message #21016]

Mon, 03 May 2004 12:41

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: gercan.REMOVE_ME.acm.org

Hi all,
First let me briefly introduce myself . My name is Gorkem I am a committer
in the Lomboz project since its beginning. I am currently an active
developer for the project. Since objectweb and Lomboz is a major
contributor in the webtools projects and also I love writing development
tools. I will try to contribute to the webtools project.
I am going to be able to spend more time for the webtools project than
I did with the Lomboz project. I am interested in the j2ee standard tools
subproject and In the early stages I will try to contribute in the areas
of server tooling and j2ee module tools where I have previous experience.
I would also like to point out that like most eclipse projects, WTP
lacks information on how to contribute for individuals. Most of us know
about the mailing lists and bugzilla already. What I would love to see is
a roadmap or the story of an individual who made it to committer in any
eclipse project.(if there are any!) May be some posting like Craig R.
McClanahan did for the jakarta project in
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contributing.html

Gorkem Ercan

Re: Commitment to participate [message #21500 is a reply to message #21016]

Sat, 08 May 2004 00:19

Eclipse User

Gorkem Ercan wrote:
> Hi all,
> First let me briefly introduce myself . My name is Gorkem I am a committer
> in the Lomboz project since its beginning. I am currently an active
> developer for the project. Since objectweb and Lomboz is a major
> contributor in the webtools projects and also I love writing development
> tools. I will try to contribute to the webtools project.
> I am going to be able to spend more time for the webtools project than
> I did with the Lomboz project. I am interested in the j2ee standard tools
> subproject and In the early stages I will try to contribute in the areas
> of server tooling and j2ee module tools where I have previous experience.
> I would also like to point out that like most eclipse projects, WTP
> lacks information on how to contribute for individuals. Most of us know
> about the mailing lists and bugzilla already. What I would love to see is
> a roadmap or the story of an individual who made it to committer in any
> eclipse project.(if there are any!) May be some posting like Craig R.
> McClanahan did for the jakarta project in
> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contributing.html
>
> Gorkem Ercan
>
Gorkem,

Thx for the intro. There is contribution information linked off the
proposal. See
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-webtools/Wikiaed0.h tml
Is that what you are looking for?

-- Arthur

Lomboz and Licensing question [message #24112 is a reply to message #21016]

Fri, 21 May 2004 10:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tre8426171.aol.com

From the ObjectLearn website it mentions Lomboz is LGPL licensed. In another
section of site the license does not look at all like the LGPL
("redistribute in binary form only")
http://www.objectlearn.com/legal/license.jsp

Several questions come to mind as it relates to the webtools project:
1) Why the differences with the licenses on the objectlearn.com
2) Is there any intent to included Lomboz source within the webtools
project?
- If so, have the licensing issues been thoroughly examined?
2a) If a contributor to a LGPL project contributes source code is there a
contract (or quasi-contract) that the license is to remain LGPL? I've seen
projects change licensing policy, and think they are in error. I heard
Mozilla contacted all contributors prior to changing their license terms. I
feel there's a legal ramification to this (changing license) - the
contributors made the contribution under a specific license, and to change
license perhaps violates this agreement. I've also seen licenses that
specify the copyright is assigned to that organization - which would then
lead me to believe they can change license terms at will. (Not being a
lawyer I'm not even sure contract law is applicable, IP law perhaps, I don't
know.)

Don't take my inquires in the wrong tone. I'm asking these questions so that
any potential issues are resolved early, and hopefully if there are issues
they are made clear to all who might contribute. Hopefully there is no issue
in bringing source from Lomboz or for that matter other LGPL projects to a
CPL project, but I suspect there are issues with doing that?

Re: Lomboz and Licensing question [message #24150 is a reply to message #24112]

Fri, 21 May 2004 11:23

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tre8426171.aol.com

Sorry, Didn't mean to post to this thread (no correlation.)
Please ignore!,
I'll re-post on its own thread.

Re: Lomboz and Licensing question [message #24304 is a reply to message #24150]

Fri, 21 May 2004 16:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: smesh.openrules.com

Tim Reilly wrote:
> Sorry, Didn't mean to post to this thread (no correlation.)
> Please ignore!,
> I'll re-post on its own thread.

From Mozilla, you can delete your own messages from the newsgroup. :)

--
Sam Mesh - http://openrules.com

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