I have spoken to the developers and they are willing to sign the software grant and donate the code to the compress component if they are mentionend in the code (guess NOTICE file would be ok too). Can one please give me detailled instructions how too proceed?
Guess they have to sign this: http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt and fax it to whom and with which number? Christian On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > Well, are we protecting ourselves here? Just putting the ASL2 license > mumbo jumbo in the header of a file doesn't exactly mean you have the > right to license the code at all (perhaps your employer "owns" > anything you write?). I'd feel safer with some a more formal code > grant, but that's just me. > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> Christian Grobmeier wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> compress issue 241 [1] proposes to implement CPIO archives. Since the >>> jRPM project allready >>> has implemented the streaming code, it should be really >>> straightforward to include it in compress. >>> I know I am bit early since there are many other open issues with >>> compress, but I would like >>> to know if I can simply copy the jRPM code and create a compress-patch >>> when i have the time. >>> The code is apache licensed, but maybe it must go through the >>> incubator? Or I need to ask the developers? >> >> Nope. If it is AL2 licensed then you are free to copy it. Make sure you add >> an >> appropriate section to the compress NOTICE file. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
