> From: Cliff Schmidt [mailto:cliff@bea.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:55 AM
[...]
> Sorry for any confusion; let me be more clear:
>
> In order to start the project, the first step was for BEA (the company,
> not any individual employee of the company) to sign the ASF's License
> Agreement (sometime referred to as the "software grant"), which grants
> a copyright and patent license to the ASF for the initial code base.
I know. I saw notification that BEA had indeed completed the paperwork.
That in itself could deserve a coordinated announcement BTW.
> Without BEA having done this, there would have been no code for the
> project to start with. The purpose of my announcement was to let
> people know that this has happened, so that anyone interested could
> get involved.
*nod* I view the paperwork (grant + CLAs) as a seperate step as checking
in the code. Hence my response. Not a big deal, I was more worried
about below.
>> I'm a bit concerned about seeing "BEA" included in further
>> announcements (on project releases for instance).
>
> I can't imagine why "BEA" would be mentioned in a project release
> announcement. I think everyone understands the Apache XMLBeans
> project is exactly that...not the "Apache/BEA XMLBeans project". ;-)
Concerns removed.
Sander
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