[modules-discuss] questions on status

[Stanley M. Ho]

Hi Stephen,

I'm looking into the licensing issue. I've been mostly offline last week 
and this week, and will follow up your questions when I'm back in office.

- Stanley


Stephen J. McConnell wrote:
> To the 277 community at large:
> 
> Some questions on status:
> 
>   (a) The comments below reference a pending strawman document, 
>       however, about 5 months ago another strawman document was 
>       referenced (the service and service provider support 
>       document) but that document was restricted to EG members
>       pending Sanley Ho's resolution of JCP rules via a request for 
>       clarification to the JCP PMO.  I would like to know if 
>       the JCP PMO raised any issues that would prevent publication, 
>       and if so, what those issues were?  
> 
>   (b) Will the interoperability strawman be subject to the same 
>       closed review process or can we expect imminent publication
>       without legal constraint?
> 
>   (c) Have any actions been taken to eliminate the requirement 
>       for people interested in JSR 277 to accept the license 
>       constraints associated with the initial draft specification 
>       document (this has been and remains an issue in terms of 
>       engaging a broader FOSS community in the evaluation of the 
>       277 work)?  In particular - can be look forward to the 
>       publication of the second edition of the draft specification
>       under the GPL?
> 
>   (d) Is anyone on the 277 EG working with the IcedTea project 
>       to establish an installable modules prototype?  In my opinion
>       a working distribution of the modules system would be very
>       valuable and generate a greater level of community 
>       involvement.
> 
> Cheers, Steve.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:27 +0930, Stanley M. Ho wrote:
>> Hi Glyn,
>>
>> The work is in progress, and there are ongoing prototypings to figure 
>> out how it should work and to also validate the overall approach. I
>> will send out the strawman proposal for the EG to review and discuss
>> when it is ready. Interoperability is definitely something that I
>> would like to address before this JSR goes public review.
>>
>> - Stanley
>>
>>
>> Glyn Normington wrote: 
>>> Hi Stanley 
>>>
>>> Please could you provide an update on your work on interoperation 
>>> between JSR 277 and JSR 291? 
>>>
>>> If the work is still in progress, how's it coming along and roughly
>> when 
>>> might there be a strawman proposal to review? 
>>>
>>> Thanks, 
>>>
>>> Glyn
> 
>