On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:40, Leo Simons wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:05:01PM +0800, Manuel Mall wrote: > > We would like to include a software module currently hosted on > > SourceForge into the codebase of the Apache FOP project. The > > developers who wrote the module have indicated their willingness to > > do so (actually are very keen to do this) and we have their ICLAs. > > What I don't quite understand is the additional software grant > > (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants) required. > > > > On the grant form is says: ""Licensor owns or has sufficient > > rights to contribute the software source code". In this case we > > don't have a single Licensor but a group of people. How does the > > form work in such a case as it seems to make the assumption that > > the Licensor is either a single person or a single organisation? > > I think the answer is that every person from that group sends in the > grant paperwork. The legal-discuss mailing list is probably where to > query for an authoritive answer. >
OK, I'll go to legal-discuss with this question. The problem is if I for example would be a contributor to the SourceForge project in question and would get presented with the form I won't be able to sign it (in good conscience) as I individually have not sufficient rights to contribute the software. > I think that the receiving PMC is the body responsible for figuring > this stuff out, so they should probably be CCed in (sorry, don't know > top-of- head which PMC is for FOP). It was a member of the receiving PMC (xmlgraphics) who send me to this mailing list for clarification :-). > > http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html > > Is the base URL for incubator-related IP stuff information. > > cheers, > > Leo Manuel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
