Re: OFBiz - next steps

[David E. Jones]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 9:26 AM, J Aaron Farr wrote:

On 2/13/06, Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

J Aaron,

thanks for your feedback.
Sorry but I still have some doubts about this:

if a guy signs an iCLA in which he states that he agrees to release

address the work that the guy did and donated in the past under a
different licence and to a different project/community?

under the ASL all the work (present and future) that he sends to the ASF (thru mailing lists, Jira, SVN etc...), in which way this agreement will

Incubating OFBiz = present contribution.

For former contributors, the purpose of the iCLA is to cover this
current contribution to the Incubator.  While the contribution may be
in the past as far as OFBiz is concerned, it's in the present as far
as the ASF is concerned.  In other words, the contributor is
re-contributing the code as part of the incubation grant.

-David

Yes, this makes sense. We are basically getting together as a big group of people who have written things for OFBiz and contributing them all to the ASF. This is the only way to do it as technically no single entity owns all of the OFBiz code. As far as picking on the term "present" goes it could be interpreted as the initial code contribution as J Aaron described, or the way I was thinking of it was that technically in licensing there is no "past" it is the present state of the work or a particular state of the work that is of concern.

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