On Thursday 04 November 2004 02:11, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > What about code that was contributed during Incubation? > > They would have to obtain a license from the ASF to use that code, or, > in alternative, a license from each invididual contributor. Since that > license comes along with the files, if they like that license, they are > set.
In fact, the ASL/CLA combo is a bit ambigous on these points as well, since it basically says; 1. The Copyright *owner* of any work is the producer of the Original Work. 2. Any contributor agrees that each and every part of contribution to the Original Work, becomes part of the Original Work. = I don't own my patches. The ambiguities arises from 'what scope' is Original Work. Is it a single file? Is it more or is it less? Assuming it is a single file, in Aaron's example the JExample team could easily look at which files they originally contributed into the Incubator, and extract them back out and re-license without any additional assignments from other contributors. If an entire project is considered Original Work (as is the case in Sun's licensing, which may or may not be relevant), then the entire project is could be re-licensed. If it is 'less-than-a-file', it would be interesting to see how such definition is made. To make the case even more complicated, since the CLA covers the (2.) above, patches arriving from non-ASF committers are also "in limbo", since such contributor could say "I only contributed because it was ASL", and so on. And OTOH, although right should be right, I doubt it would ever be tried in court, and would I care if someone used a few hundred lines of my code without giving me credit or licensing it as GPL which I hate?? I wouldn't. Someone else with bigger ego than me maybe. Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.bali.ac / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
