Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 4/17/06, Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm finding this part of the process puzzling, ... > > The general rule of thumb is that we'd like to have CLAs on-file for > all code imports. This way we can relicense the contributions under a > new license.
I was still confused, but remembered vaguely you had written something recently clarifying code grants. And I found it in February wrt OFBiz: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in that post you wrote: > The software grant is our preferred mechanism for code bases that can > be collectively licensed as a whole and submitted that way - > especially so for code that 'skips' Incubation (like the FOP example). > For those projects coming to the Incubator that have a single > copyright holder (like BEA, IBM, etc.), the software grant is the > cleanest approach as well. > > But, for OFBiz (like SA), no entity has the authority to relicense the > work and submit it to the ASF in the form of a software grant. > Therefore, we need CLAs from everyone who contributed at a minimum. > We could conceivably ask for a grant, but if we decided to execute a > software grant form for every OFBiz contributor, it would be a > bureaucratic nightmare as well. -- justin I think this is what needs to be captured into the incubator docs. The process for bringing in code from a single entity has been worked out pretty well; bringing in code that's already open source not from a single entity has been more confusing. > But, if the code is already ALv2-licensed and we can't get CLAs, it > won't be the end of the world; but we'd need to note that somehow so > that the next time we rev our license, we don't rev that portion as we > don't have the bits to license that under another license. how about ALv1.1? That's what the external cayenne codebase is under according to the proposal at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/CayenneProposal . thanks, -jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
