[cosmos-dev] Re: Re: Dojo toolkit legal

[Sheldon Lee-Loy <sleeloy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bjorn,

COSMOS is currenlty persuing the legal
IP approval of DOJO https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2026

After further consideration... COSMOS
should persue the legal IP approval of DOJO.  Depending on whether
this approval is rejected we can bring our concern to the technology pmc
at that time.

Thanks for steering us through this
process.

Sheldon
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Sheldon Lee-Loy

Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>

07/02/2008 11:34 PM

To	Sheldon Lee-Loy/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, cosmos-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
cc	technology-pmc <technology-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	Re: Re: Dojo toolkit legal

Sheldon,
The process is to send an email to the technology-pmc mailing list. I've
cc'd this email to the list, so consider the process started. 

You explain (below) why Dojo should be considered "already on the
user's machine", but why should an IP review of Dojo be considered
"impossible, impractical, or inadvisable"? I can imagine some
reasons, but I need the reasons to be yours and not mine :-)  Note
that "we shouldn't review it because it is available via an url and
everyone is connected to the internet all the time" is not a valid
reason because, quite honestly, all software is available that way these
days and we don't want to just not IP review anything - that would be bad
:-(

- Bjorn
>From reading the Eclipse Policy and Procedure
document it seems that a
pre-req may be classified as 'exempt'.
  

a. A pre-req may be classified as "exempt" by the EMO if the
software is
pervasive in nature, expected to be already on the user's machine, and/or
an IP review would be either impossible, impractical, or inadvisable.
  
Dojo pre-req for COSMOS might fit into this clasification
for the following
reasons.

   It is expected that the user be connected to the web where DOJO
is
   expected to be hosted on the Content Delivery Network at
   http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.0.0/dojo/dojo.xd.js.uncompressed.js

Bjorn,
Is there an official process to submit a proposal to the Technology PMC?
If not what mailling list do I submit my proposal?  Sorry for my ignorance.
  

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