I would probably be a little more inclined to open source it on my own, as I'm not too fond of the LGPL. Would it be considered LGPL anyway if it's dependent on logback? I don't think it would... I would much prefer MIT or Apache. I would prefer to make it work against SLF4J as that would allow it to be used in a lot more situations, but SLF4J has no concept or API for querying existing loggers/appenders, etc. (and I understand why-- it would be pretty hard to generalize all that) sorry for the thread drift... ----- Original Message ---- From: Ceki Gulcu <listid@qos.ch> To: logback users list <logback-user@qos.ch> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:33:21 PM Subject: Re: [logback-user] RE: [logback-user] logback initialization "à la" Spring I encourage you to create your own project. Alternatively, you could contribute your code to the logback. Assuming the following conditions: 0) you intend to maintain it 1) you don't mind other logback developers rummaging through and refactoring your code :-) 2) you agree to the terms of the "Contributor License Agreement" [1] As for jabsorb.org, I've added it to the list. [1] http://logback.qos.ch/cla.txt Arthur Blake wrote:

Ceki said:

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Perhaps the cleanest solution is to trigger reloading of the config file manually via some convenient (graphical?) user interface.

I wrote a really nice ajax based graphical UI for log4j recently for a client that does all that. It worked out so well, I've been toying of the idea of making an open source one for logback. I prefer logback for my own open source projects. If there is significant interest in this I might consider doing this and either contributing to logback or open sourcing it on my own...

PS. Ceki, I have yet another open source library that is now dependent on SLF4J (see http://jabsorb.org) - nice if you could add that to the main SLF4J page.

Cheers

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