Rob Weir wrote:
We would probably want to confirm with the original author for any
pre-Apache patches, to make sure that the patch is given under ALv2.
The exception might be those who were Sun/Oracle/IBM employees at the
time.
Could we try to have a clearer picture here, limited to patches that are
attached to Bugzilla issues?
Patches by then-Sun/Oracle employees belong to Sun/Oracle, but they
haven't necessarily been explicitly granted to Apache. Or do we have
permission to use all patches by Sun and Oracle employees in Bugzilla? I
remember this was discussed but I can't find a conclusive answer.
Patches by then-IBM employees, as far as I know, have not been granted
to Apache by IBM.
And there's the group of people who signed a copyright agreement with
Sun: these are not Sun employees but I don't see reasons to consider
their patches different than those by Sun/Oracle employees:
http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html
If we manage to get some safe guidelines on what patches we can reuse
this would simplify integration a lot.
Regards,
Andrea.
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