Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-general-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 15494 invoked by uid 500); 20 Feb 2003 11:34:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: general@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 15430 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 11:34:33 -0000 Message-ID: <20030220113433.539.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 03:34:33 -0800 (PST) From: Davanum Srinivas Reply-To: dims@yahoo.com Subject: XML-Security back in XML (Fwd: ASF Board Meeting Summary for February 19, 2003) To: general@ws.apache.org, general@xml.apache.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0-370548238-1045740873=:117" X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N --0-370548238-1045740873=:117 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Id: Content-Disposition: inline Folks, See enclosed summary. 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Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --0-370548238-1045740873=:117 Content-Type: message/rfc822 X-Apparently-To: dims@yahoo.com via 216.136.174.36; 19 Feb 2003 19:06:22 -0800 (PST) X-Track: 3: 100 Return-Path: Received: from 208.185.179.13 (HELO icarus.apache.org) (208.185.179.13) by mta215.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 19:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 47718 invoked by uid 1203); 20 Feb 2003 03:06:19 -0000 Delivered-To: dims@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 43075 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Feb 2003 03:05:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact committers-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list committers@apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for committers@apache.org Received: (qmail 33842 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 03:00:26 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-committers@apache.org X-Authentication-Warning: kurgan.lyra.org: gstein set sender to gstein@apache.org using -f Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:05:18 -0800 From: Greg Stein To: committers@apache.org Subject: ASF Board Meeting Summary for February 19, 2003 Mail-Followup-To: community@apache.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-URL: http://www.lyra.org/greg/ X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: icarus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Content-Length: 2015 ASF Committers, The Board had its regularly-scheduled board meeting today. Since we won't have any approved minutes until some future meeting, I like to send these emails to keep people informed of what the Board is doing. In some cases, this may affect you and your work at the ASF. In other cases, it could be quite inconsequential, possibly interesting, possibly not. Whatever the case, I hope these summaries are generally useful. * We discussed a number of license and patent-related issues, which were brought up by the XML and the Web Services PMCs. In particular, the XML PMC asked us for resolution on a couple questions: 1. is it okay to use the short license [in source files] "short license" in this case meant a *reference* to the license, rather than a copy of the license. Answer: no. The full text of the Apache Software License, version 1.1, should be included in all source files. Incorporation by reference does not properly preserve the ASF's rights, nor our intent for the licensing of our software. Note: there may be a different answer when we roll out the 2.0 license, but we'll have to wait and see; that license is still a few months away from rollout, I believe. 2. Can we include software that uses license foo Answer: Dirk is going to start preparing a page on www.apache.org to answer this question on a license-by-license basis, as they arise. The page will cover, for each license, things like whether it is acceptable to have it in our CVS repository, whether we can redistribute it from the ASF servers, whether we can "link" against it, etc. The Web Services PMC raised the issue of RSA patents that are touched upon by the OpenSAML project. We don't have enough information at this time to act intelligently, but we'll keep an eye on the situation. The Board also took this as an indication that we should develop a patent policy; this will most likely happen *after* the 2.0 license work (although: note that the 2.0 license does have some patent considerations in it, but that is mostly a reflection of an implicit policy, rather than a statement). Licensing and patent discussions should occur on the licensing@apache.org mailing list. I believe that list is (currently) a closed list; please use your @apache.org address so the moderator knows you're "okay". * The Board briefly discussed Mr Donald's committer status suspension, noting that it has expired and that the Avalon team has reinstated his commit privileges to that project. At this point, the Board has no further action plans or items w.r.t the suspension. * The XML-Security (sub)project was moved from the Web Services PMC back to the XML PMC (at the community's request; they got swept up in the project migration). * Chuck Murcko noted that we have a PayPal account now, and the contribution page now reflects that: http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html * The Board spent some time discussing the legal relationship between the PHP project and the ASF. This item has been hanging around for a while, and its resolution is a bit overdue. We're going to work with the PHP Group to figure out what the proper and best relationship is, to the benefit of all of us. * There was a resolution to create a new PMC for the Maven project. We were already 20 minutes over our schedule, so we tabled this discussion. We don't want to table this for a whole month, though, so I'm going to be calling a Special Meeting of the Board, early next week, to wrap up this one item. If you have any questions or concerns, then please feel free to direct them to myself, other Directors, or (preferably) to board@apache.org. General followups to this summary should be held on community@apache.org. Cheers, -g -- gstein@apache.org ... ASF Chairman ... http://www.apache.org/ --0-370548238-1045740873=:117 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: webmaster@xml.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@xml.apache.org --0-370548238-1045740873=:117--