Subject: Re: ANN: Maintenance 4xt From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 10:12:52 +0200 |
James, David, Sebastian, and the other XT users, Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > I hope its current maintainer will answer your email. > > He hasn't answered ours which we've considered as an answer. James Clark wrote: > > I sent you the following. I guess it got lost somewhere: David Carlisle wrote: > > I don't. Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > Good gracious, that does not sound legal or polite at all! I am sorry for the tone of my answer which I shouldn't have sent with these words (I hope it has reestablished the contact with James though). I'd like to say that : 1) This project can only be achieved with the support of the XSL community and will not be done against its will. 2) I have a great respect for James, his vision, his contribution to XML and, of course, XT. I don't want to give the feeling of hiding anything and I have published the private email exchange I had with James about 4xt and the archives of the team4xt list (James is one of the subscribers) where we've been discussing about XT maintenance : http://4xt.org/list/jjc/ http://4xt.org/list/team4xt/ You will find the mail quoted by James (http://4xt.org/list/jjc/0003.html) in full context. My initial proposal (first privately then through team4xt) was to help James with the support and documentation of XT which he doesn't seem to like or have time to do : http://4xt.org/list/jjc/0009.html http://4xt.org/list/team4xt/0041.html I am still thinking it would be the best combination where we would act as a support organization and would submit qualified bugs and feature requests with, when possible, suggestions of code modification to James whose help and guidance would be invaluable. If this cannot happen and if the community approves and supports the effort, we must (IMHO) try to keep XT (under this name or any other one) alive by ourselves. If we go in this direction, we will make sure the new XSLT processor is differentiated from XT and that James copyright is respected. Everybody will of course remain free of choosing which processor he will use. I think it's both legal (we will follow every word of James' copyright) and polite (to XT users if not to James). It's also conform to the principle of Open Source where ideas do not belong to individuals. Thanks for your feedback. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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