{"id":4941,"date":"2011-09-28T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4941-phonegap-likely-to-move-to-apache-software-foundation.html"},"modified":"2011-09-28T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:59:46","slug":"phonegap-likely-to-move-to-apache-software-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4941-phonegap-likely-to-move-to-apache-software-foundation.html","title":{"rendered":"PhoneGap likely to move to Apache Software Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nitobi\u2019s Brian LeRoux, who works on PhoneGap, has <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/phonegap-dev\/vFy8GCcHiY4\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the start of a process to move the project to the Apache Software Foundation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have initialized the process to contribute PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The process is straightforward beginning w\/ a submission of a proposal to the ASF that describes the move in detail. We&#8217;ve been looking at different options for a foundation contribution since the beginning. Now is the time. PhoneGap is hugely adopted and the IP belongs in an org aligned w\/ our goals, philosophy and the web. It will remain free software, licensed as it always has been: Apache\/BSD\/MIT.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the name may change thanks to a trademark dispute.<\/p>\n<p>PhoneGap seems to have plenty of momentum and is turning up in a variety of tools, including Adobe DreamWeaver and Embarcadero RAD PHP XE2, to mention two I am aware of. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitobi\u2019s Brian LeRoux, who works on PhoneGap, has announced the start of a process to move the project to the Apache Software Foundation: We have initialized the process to contribute PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The process is straightforward beginning w\/ a submission of a proposal to the ASF that describes the move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4941-phonegap-likely-to-move-to-apache-software-foundation.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PhoneGap likely to move to Apache Software Foundation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,56,62,67,80],"tags":[123,149,346,363,599,639,719],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-embarcadero","category-mobile","category-open-source","category-professional","category-software-development","tag-adobe","tag-apache","tag-dreamweaver","tag-embarcadero","tag-mobile","tag-nitobi","tag-phonegap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}