From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T04:00:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Who's maintaining log4r?


On Jan 3, 2007, at 12:05 PM, matt wrote:

>
>>>
>>> 2) A lot of those issues can probably be bypassed in most cases  
>>> by simply
>>> adding someone to the project as a developer with commit privs,  
>>> leaving
>>> the actual ownership of the project in place.
>>>
>>
>
> We still need to consider that this is someone elses intellectual
> property, so we might need to be careful about this, just in case the
> original owner was to come back. If other people are committing,  
> without
> his approval, it might be a violation of his IP. I think that if it is
> carefully documented, the process of trying to locate the owner,  
> over a
> period of time, that it shouldn't be a problem, but there are some
> definite legalities that RubyForge should have there attorney approve
> first.

To pose a more concrete question:

Has anyone from the rubyforge team been in on this discusson?  We'd  
need buy-in from them before any of this took place.
-Mat