Project Name: CouchDB
The goal is to create an Apache top level project around the existing CouchDB open source project.
Key Features:
The goals of the project are aligned with the goals of the ASF, namely there is interest in (continuing to) foster a collaborative, consensus based development process, using an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
The project has recently transformed from being primarily a single person led (and funded) project to one with a number of diverse participants. Development has been coordinated primarily through a mailing list, with some IRC.
The community consists of a set of independent developers, one of which recently joined IBM
A database server with a strong focus on HTTP and REST principles.
All participants are active users and contributors to open source. One of them (Christopher Lenz) has experience as committer on other Apache projects.
The exiting committers are spread over a number of countries and employers.
Only one developer is being paid to work on CouchDB. Read his views on the relationship he has with his employer.
Experimental usage of Lucene
This product started out independent of Apache and under a GPL license. After discussions with a number of people within IBM, Damien Katz agreed to pursue both incubation at the ASF, and employment at IBM
Resides on Google Code. The code has been recently relicensed from GPL to the Apache License, Version 2.0, in anticipation of this submission.
The bulk of the core code was written by Damien Katz. Major contributions include: a GNU Autotools build system supporting most POSIX systems contributed by Noah Slater, a built-in administration interface provided by Christopher Lenz, and experimental fulltext search with Lucene by Jan Lehnardt. ICLAs either have been, or are in the process of being, submitted for all code involved in this submission.
ICLA's are already on file for:
ICLA's in progress:
There are a few (as in single digit) number of files that we are continuing to sort through the licenses. These include Public Domain, X Consortium, and MITish licenses.
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Sam Ruby <rubys@apache.org>
The Apache Incubator