From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T04:07:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Who's maintaining log4r?

On 1/3/07, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Tom Copeland has piped up, and he is going to bring this up with the
Ruby Central guys (they pay for RubyForge -- hardware and bandwidth).

By the way, thanks Tom :)

Blessings,
TwP