Jim Jagielski is one of the co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation, a director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), new President of the
Outercurve Foundation, and as we mentioned
yesterday, your interview subject for the next two hours. Mr. Jagielski will be answering your questions below until 2:00 ET (18:00 GMT). Please keep it to one question per post so everyone gets a chance.
Update: 2pm ET has come and gone. Mr. Jagielski might stick around for a bit and answer questions later so make sure to check back. A big thanks to him for his time and answers! Here's
a link to his user page where you can read all his responses.
Re:Apache Harmony
By jimjag
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2013-Aug-28 14:23
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Typo: It should be the 'EC' not 'EA': Executive Committee
Re:Shared Source
By jimjag
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2013-Aug-28 14:24
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Both the Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Reciprocal License are Free and Open Source licenses (as determined by the FSF and OSI). The others ain't and so there's no need to use them, imo.
Re:Software freedom
By jimjag
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2013-Aug-28 14:28
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Also, to be clear, even though I'm mostly associated with the ALv2, I hack and develop code under a bunch of other license as well, including GPL, et.al.
A license is a tool, and you pick the license based on how you want, or don't want, your code to be distributed, used and shared. There is no one-size-fits-all license, and your choice of license should be done with some thought, not based on who has the longest or bushiest beard. :)=
Re:My Question
By jimjag
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2013-Aug-28 14:29
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And yet, you are here as well...
Strange, huh?
Re:Apache Harmony is dead, but GNU lives?
By jimjag
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2013-Aug-28 14:32
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The issue is that Oracle controls who gets the TCK and they put restrictions on it for Apache that they didn't put on for themselves (OpenJDK). Despite having a signed agreement to the contrary as well as agreeing w/ Apache back before Oracle bought Sun.
Weird, huh?