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Bad Spot


Andrew C. Oliver: This leaves Apache in a bad spot. Continue to participate in a process that restricts a collaborative, consensus based development process by forking its communities into NDA-haves and have-nots and potentially prevents Apache from licensing its software as something meeting the Open Source Definition or disavow itself of this process and leave its projects in an unblessed state (they can continue to implement the specs as released to the public but not participate in their design) or potentially a third fragmentary response where restrictions are accepted for some projects (particularly those that do not restrict “Field Of Use").

Should the ASF vote no "NO” on a JSR Review ballot that established Sun to be the spec lead on yet another JSR?  Oh no, says Henning Schmiedehausen, as that would be going nuclear.

Should the ASF cease the practice of requesting TCKs under condition of NDAs?  Oh no, says Bill Barker, as that would be taking the nuclear option.

I encourage everybody to read the comments that Andy’s post has attracted, and think about what going nuclear really means.