Results of the future of libwww survey from Jose Kahan on 2004-01-29 (www-lib@w3.org from January to March 2004) (original) (raw)

Dear libwww'ers,

Sorry for the delay. I was waiting for the green light to make the announcement, which you will find here below. In a nutshell, we're giving libwww to the open source community and we can continue hosting it or it can be moved elsewhere, whatever is more convenient to the new maintainers. I'll send a separate mail to the people who expressed interest in continuing its maintenance and see how to arrange the transition.

Hosting libwww at W3C means offering you CVS, mailing list, some web and ftp space as well as system support. It won't give you any user@w3.org mail address, though.

If someone among you didn't answer the survey and are interested in maintaining libwww, please contact me by email ASAP so that you can be in the loop.

Cheers,

-jose

--- the official announcement ---

W3C conducted a survey on the future of Libwww last September [1,2]. The results of the survey [3] are summarized here below:

19 existing applications (Open Source, Commercial, or both) use Libwww
Almost all responders think it is important to have a library that provides a complete HTTP 1/1 implementations, as well as related functions
A fair number of motivated people have expressed their wish to participate actively in the further development of Libwww

Taking into account these results, W3C has decided to handle over Libwww to the Open Source community, with the following recommendations:

Libwww software that was developed inside W3C will continue to be protected under the W3C Software License. Future work on libwww must remain accessible to public and as such must be protected under the W3C Software License or a similar Open Source License, such as GPL.

Libwww hosting

W3C is happy to continue hosting libwww on our web and cvs servers as a service to the Open Source community. However, the new maintainers are free to move the development to another Open Source repository, if this is more convenient for them.

For follow-up questions, please contact Jos?? Kahan <jose.kahan@w3.org>.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2003JulSep/0029.html [2] http://www.w3.org/Library/Survey2 [3] http://www.w3.org/2003/11/04-futlibwwwresults.html

Received on Thursday, 29 January 2004 06:35:04 UTC