Re: [xmlvm-users] xmlvm-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 8

[Wolfgang K. <wol...@xm...>]

Mark,

thanks for sharing you thoughts about our CLA. You suggest to grant the
CLA for all derived work based on the code base into which a
contribution was integrated. As Arno pointed out earlier, usually a
contribution gets never removed from XMLVM once we decided to accept and
integrate a patch. That means, that all subsequent versions of XMLVM can
be considered as "derived work" which implies that we should grant a CLA
which is not limited in terms of time. Did I get you right?

-- Wolfgang


Mark Wolfskehl wrote:
> Hi Arno,
>
> Thanks for answering here some of the questions I had sent to you  
> directly last week.
>
> I think the general direction of what you have proposed is reasonable.
> I understand your interest in motivating others with commercial  
> interests to contribute to the project.
>
> I find the technology of XMLVM interesting in and of itself.  My main  
> limitation is time, given that I work
> for someone else full-time and can only work on my personal  
> commercial interests (or XMLVM) with the limited time
> that is left.
>
> The main thing you are providing for commercial developers, I  
> believe, is savings of time - not having to
> port an application from Android to the iPhone.  So, as far as I am  
> concerned, if I spend roughly the same
> amount of time working on XMLVM that I would have done directly for  
> an iPhone port of an Android application,
> that's fine.  I'd rather be doing something different than coding the  
> same thing a second time anyway.
> And ostensibly that time savings adds up for the next product, etc.
>
> I do have one additional comment regarding your view of the linking  
> exception:  I believe that
> the linking exception should also be applied to all "derived works"  
> created by the commercial developer
> based on the code base for which the linking exception was granted.   
> At the very least, this allows
> the commercial developer to include bug fixes, even if these are not  
> deemed "significant" by other standards.
> They may also include contributions that do not seem "significant" to  
> the group but which are significant to the
> commercial entity.  I believe this would be a reasonable exception.
>
> I appreciate your attitude of cooperation and desire to give-and- 
> take.  That's what business is about, or at
> least should be about.
>
> I look forward to the opportunity to work with all of you.  My main  
> challenge will be to actually find the time
> to do all the personal projects (including XMLVM) that I would like  
> to do, with the challenges of keeping
> a full-time coding job.  If any of you have any advice or suggestions  
> from personal experience regarding this,
> I'm all ears.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Wolfskehl, Ph.D.
>