On 1/6/07, Chris Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Scenario: A project (Project A) is set up on Source Forge by individuals as the only legal entities. Project A is setup under the Apache License V2. What would Project A need to do beforehand to ensure that all code committed to Project A's SVN is available for an existing ASF project to incorporate into it's code base in the following scenarios: 1) ASF committer incorporates code from Project A directly into the ASF project 2) Member of Project A submits a patch file to the JIRA of the ASF project 3) Non Member of Project A submits patch file from Project A to the JIRA of the ASF project.
IANAL (trying to tie together what others have said) any code which is not originally created for apache by a contributor needs to be cleared through the incubator. this usually means a software grant. i'm not sure that membership of the project is relevant: what matters is copyright ownership (or at least the right to sign a software grant). so, 1 code is imported by a committer without a software grant 2 the copyright owner grants apache the required license to the code 3 mistakenly a contributor submits a patch to which they do not have the required license importing source without a software grant is a PITA. given compatible licensing, it's probably better not to fork the source and use a binary dependency. only apache projects can safely use the current license header. when imported the source, this header and copyright information *must* be preserved. the contents of the NOTICE also need to be preserved. software grants are much better for apache. this makes everything much easier. one approach would be for you to collect the required permissions from the contributors to the project as you go along: just ask people to FAX you (needs to be a hard copy) the required documents. you'd then have permission for any work to be imported via a software grant. if this sounds like a good approach, i'll try to set some wheels in motion... - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
