I going to blame our lawyers for this. (That's my story and I'm stickn' to it! :)
Let's pause this thread and level set on this after Jim confirms the faxes that I sent today and I update the pages that Noel has pointed out. Regards, Alan ------Original Message------ From: Noel J. Bergman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: general@incubator.apache.org ReplyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 1, 2006 5:42 PM Subject: RE: [VOTE] approve a milestone release of ActiveMQ? James Strachan wrote: > > * I don't see a Software Grant for any of the code that came > > over from codehaus. FYI, Alan indicates that one was sent a month ago, but we have no record of it. > I thought that software grants were only for contributions to > existing projects from commercial organisations? > If we've done the paperwork & the code is all licensed to Apache IP clearance is one of the major activities that we need to address in the Incubator, and since IANAL, I err on the side of conservatism unless informed otherwise. At the moment we are told that any substantial, externally developed, codebase requires a Software Grant. The Software Grant is the paperwork I was looking for, which provides that license to the ASF. If the VP of Legal Affairs, or one of our lawyers, wants to say that all of your code was properly assigned to the ASF by other means, I'm sure that we'd accept a record of that determination. Also, apparently, there may be committers to that codebase who have no CLA on file. > I see no mention of Software Grant on the incubation policy... > http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html It is obscure on that page. Under Minimum Exit Requirements - Legal is a line item saying that the license grant must be complete (there is a typo on that page). See also: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html > > * I have no problem with the tarballs, but the plain jars do > > not have the disclaimer associated with them. > How should the disclaimer be associated? Well, this is a bit of an issue. Why are the plain jars available? To allow automated downloads by Maven? I have an issue with that, since it could allow people to use the code without knowing that it is in the Incubator, but more to the point, we've had that discussion, and I don't recall the resolution. > I don't follow; what needs to be done to activemq.html That is the official record for many of the things that you're recording on the wiki. There is nothing in the ASF that accepts a wiki as an official document. Source control systems only. So periodically make sure that you've updated that status file -- at a minimum quarterly, when you want a release, or some other official action. --- Noel Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
