I've always wondered this: What is the policy on copying code from an external non-Apache ASF-licensed project? For example, if someone wanted to take a class from Spring and plop it in an Apache project. Is simply being from ASF-licensed code enough?
Paul On 9/20/07, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 19.09.2007, at 20:56, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > It would still be code that's not covered by a CLA, so different from > > most of the code at the ASF. > > True. /me wonders why we didn't realize that problem during the > discussion :) > > > I'm not sure how frowned on that would be - probably quite a bit. If > > we were copying the code in as a separate module to compress, then > > that might be happier. > > For now I think this was just a discussion. We would need to see if > the amount of code would be really worth the trouble. > > > I suggest we talk with legal-discuss to find > > out how we should deal with it if we do decide to go ahead with the > > idea. > > ...but checking with legal discuss would be definitely worthwhile. > > cheers > -- > Torsten > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
