[slf4j-dev] Requesting permission to use source code from slf4j-taglib (and inquiring about its location)

[Nicholas Williams]

Oh, okay. That makes more sense. It originally sounded like you were
saying it was not a QOS.ch project.

I have already emailed Matt and he has already donated the code.
Thanks again for the info!

Nick

Sent from my iPhone, so please forgive brief replies and frequent typos

On Mar 25, 2013, at 13:45, ceki <ceki at qos.ch> wrote:

>
> I did not mean to say that slf4j-taglib is not a QOS.ch project. Matt
> Humphreys donated slf4j-taglib to QOS.ch. However, QOS.ch is not in a
> position to donate the code to Apache. By analogy, if person P donates
> code C to Apache, Apache is not in a position to donate C to some
> other foundation, say Eclipse, without P's consent, at least that is
> my understanding of how donations work. I'd be glad to reconsider, if
> you could have someone at licensing at apache.org to confirm that QOS.ch
> is in a position to (re)donate to Apache. Note that the QOS.ch iCLA is
> identical to Apache's iCLA word for word except for the obvious
> s/Apache/QOS.ch/.
>
> Anyway, your easiest bet is to have Matt Humphreys directly donate the code.
>
> I hope this sheds some light,
>
> On 25.03.2013 18:27, Nick Williams wrote:
>> Thanks, on both accounts! I will contact him.
> >
> > I should say that the SLF4J website in no way indicates that this is
> > the case [1]. I would suggest that this page should be changed somehow
> > to indicate that it is not a QOS.ch project. Perhaps there is a
> > website you can point to? Or include the link to
> > https://github.com/ceki/?
> >
>> Nick
>>
>> [1] http://www.slf4j.org/taglib/
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Nick,
>>>
>>> Slf4j-aglib was developed by Matt Humphreys <mhumph at gmail.com> based
>>> on earlier work done by Joseph Ottinger and James Strachan in Jakarta
>>> Commons Log Taglib. Please ask Matt Humphreys to donate slf4j-taglib
>>> code to Apache.
>>>
>>> BTW, the source code for slf4j-taglib is available at:
>>>
>>>  https://github.com/ceki/slf4j-taglib
>>>
>>> I hope this helps,
>>>
>>> On 3/25/2013 2:21 PM, Nick Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> Though the Log4j 2 tag library will obviously have some differences
>>>> from slf4j-taglib, I can see how there may be some existing code that
>>>> could be very useful to us. I'd like to go ahead and ask permission
>>>> from the SLF4J developers to use code from slf4j-taglib for this
>>>> project. The licenses are compatible (both Apache 2.0), so that won't
>>>> be an issue. All I need is an email from y'all granting us permission.
>>>>
>>>> Also, there's the issue that I can't find the source code for
>>>> slf4j-taglib. It's not in the JARs or ZIPs available for download from
>>>> the SLF4J website, it's not on the github repository, and it's not in
>>>> Maven. Could anyone point me to its location?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Nick Williams
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ceki
>
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> Ceki
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