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The Apache Software Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
20 March 2002
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am PST -0800 began at 10:06am,
when a quorum was recognized by the chairmain. The meeting was
held by teleconference hosted by Jim Jagielski/Covalent:
2. Roll Call
Directors Present At Roll Call:
Brian Behlendorf
Ken Coar
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Ben Laurie
Greg Stein
Bill Stoddard
Randy Terbush
Directors Present Post Roll Call:
Dirk-Willem van Gulik (arrived at 10:21am)
Directors Absent:
Ben Laurie
Guests:
Jason Hunter (V.P., JCP)
Chuck Murcko
3. Minutes from the meeting of 27 Feb 2002
The minutes contained in board_minutes_2002_02_27.txt were approved by
unanimous consent of the board.
4. Officer Reports
A. President [Brian]
Brian reported that the ASF infrastructure was operating in a "steady"
fashion. Spam is a never-end problem and that a lot of work is
being done to reduce its level.
B. Treasurer [Randy]
Randy provided PDF account reports, available under
cvs.apache.org:/home/cvs foundation/Funds/
It was noted that the ApacheCon events are significant to the ASF's
revenue stream.
C. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim]
Jim had no items to report.
5. Committee Reports
A. Conference Planning [Ken]
Ken reported that the baseline dates for the next ApacheCon have been
moved to November 16-22, 2002 (possibly just through November 20). The
reasons for the change was the final feedback of the survey. The
general feeling was that (1) an event in August 2002 would not
provide sufficient time to coordinate the event and (2) the weather
in Las Vegas in August would be too uncomfortable for a good conference.
The Conference Committee is looking into adding Tutorials to the
ApacheCon event.
6. Special Orders
A. Java Community Process
The following resolution (R1) was proposed:
WHEREAS, the mission of The Apache Software Foundation is to
protect the public's interest in the Internet infrastructure
by fostering collaborative development and distribution of
open-source software; and
WHEREAS, a specification of an interface standard is often
necessary to enable interoperable implementations to be developed
by independent software projects, including those fostered by
the Foundation; and
WHEREAS, the content of a specification that includes implementation
details, such as class specifications and method prototypes, may
be restricted by U.S. copyright law and subject to terms and
conditions of use that are not consistent with free distribution
of open-source software; and
WHEREAS, some vendors have used their copyright on such
specifications to arbitrarily and capriciously exclude, to the
detriment of the public, other participants in the specification
process from implementing the very same interface standards that
they helped develop.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that The Apache Software
Foundation will no longer participate in the development of
implementations or interface standards that cannot be completely
implemented and distributed as open source software, without
royalties or fees of any kind, by nonprofit and educational
organizations; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors hereby instructs all
Project Management Committees of the Foundation to review any
and all specifications for which the Foundation's software acts
as a publicly distributed open-source implementation and ensure
that one of the following is true:
a) the Foundation has right and title to all technology necessary
to implement the specification and we have provided a license
to others to implement it under the same or similar terms
as the Apache software license; or
b) the copyright holders have granted an irrevocable, no-charge,
royalty-free license to any nonprofit or educational
organization to implement the specification for the purpose
of distribution to the public, where such license is
sufficiently complete to describe all terms and conditions
applicable to the specification at the time a copy of the
specification is obtained;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors hereby instructs all
Project Management Committees of the Foundation to correct any
software for which the above conditions do not hold true within
90 days by correcting the specification license, by modifying the
software such that it no longer implements the specification, or
by ceasing distribution of the implementation.
Resolution R1 was proposed and seconded. The Resolution R1 was approved
by unanimous vote of all directors present
There was also much discussion regarding the role of the ASF in the
Java community. It was generally agreed that the current situation
was becoming more intolerable, and that the ASF was having doubts
on whether an agreeable arrangement would be possible. In anti-
cipation of possible events, the board authorized an amount not
to exceed $2,500 (US) for the drafting and release of a Press
Release or Press Releases detailing the ASF's position.
B. Request from SAP for License Amendment Permission
Due to the details of European Law, the ASF cannot legally deny warranty
(AS IS) on the code. We can, however, allow someone to take it over. SAP
is requesting such approval from us to allow them to distribute Apache
in their product line. The proposed agreement is Attachment A.
The following resolution (R2) was proposed:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors approves the amendment to
the Apache Software License, version 1.1, attached hereto as
Attachment A, for use by SAP in redistributing software owned
by the Foundation.
Resolution R2 was proposed and seconded. The Resolution R2 was approved
by unanimous vote of all directors present
7. Unfinished Business
A. Chuck Murcko proposes that the bylaws be changed to make the board
membership a rotating three-year term (1/3 of the board would be
elected each year). He proposes to implement this by electing the
next board and then having the new board members draw straws to see
who serves 1, 2, or 3 year initial terms. From then on, newly
elected board members would serve 3 year terms. We would still
have a board election (again, for 1/3 of the board members) each year.
This was further discussed, and a formal Bylaw ammendment is being
formulated by Chuck.
8. New Business
None.
9. Announcements
Ken reported that he was in the process of changing the scriptbase for
the ApacheCon site to PHP 4.
10. Adjournment
Scheduled to adjourn by 11:00am PST -0800. The meeting was actually
adjourned at 11:27am PST -0800.
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Attachment A
AMENDMENT to the APACHE SOFTWARE LICENSE, VERSION 1.1
between SAP and THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
This document ("Amendment") shall serve to amend the Apache Software
License, Version 1.1 (the "License") between SAP and the Apache
Software Foundation.
Recitals
WHEREAS, SAP desires to amend and clarify the License;
NOW, THEREFORE, solely for SAP's business purposes, SAP and the Apache
Software Foundation agree to amend the License as follows:
1. Add the following language to the end of the License:
"SAP and/or its distributors may offer, and charge a fee for,
warranty, support, indemnity or liability obligations to one or
more recipients of the software. However, SAP and/or its distributors
may do so only on its/their own behalf, and not on behalf of the
Apache Software Foundation or its contributors."
Other than the foregoing, the terms and conditions of the License
remain unchanged and in full force and effect.
The Effective Date of this Amendment is March ____, 2002.
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End of minutes for the 20 Mar 2002 board meeting.
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