On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:36 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Donal Lafferty > <donal.laffe...@citrix.com> wrote: >> I have a specific question on incorporating existing code under Apache >> License 2.0 that I forgot to ask earlier in the month. >> >> My Hyper-V plugin calls down to modified versions of the OpenStack Nova >> driver for Hyper-V. >> >> In my repo, I've: >> >> 1. Retained the original copyright notice. >> >> 2. Added an additional copyright notice mentioning the creator of the >> derivate work, which in this case is Citrix. >> >> 3. Verified that OpenStack Nova's LICENSE is Apache License V2.0 >> >> Are these steps sufficient to add the code to Apache CloudStack? >> >> E.g. does Apache Version 2.0 require that the original project be mentioned >> in our NOTICE file? > > sigh (and despite my sigh - thanks for bringing the issue up on the > list, it would have been bad to find this out on review) > This is effectively third party code, if you are actually including it > (as opposed to it being a dependency) it needs to go through IP > Clearance as well as be noted in our legal docs. > > --David >
David may be right here. I think we need to get some clarity on what is required legally. On one hard, this isn't a "donation". If we were simply depending on the code, this would be easy. Since we are talking about code inclusion, it's a little different. IMO, I'm not sure this requires ip clearance, but I'm not certain. David and I had an offline conversation where he raised some good points. We need to get clarity before proceeding.
