I feel your pain and I know that Cayenne was in a bad spot because of
this. But if we can ease the process for others, why not?
Let's take this to legal-discuss and see what comes out. After all, that
is where the lawyers lurk.
Ciao
Henning
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:42 -0400, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
>
> > My personal understanding here is, that Ahmed (and any other
> > contributor) contributed that code to a project that is already under
> > AL2. So there is no need to track down the contributors and/or rewrite
> > code where the contributor can not be tracked down. The AL allows
> > relicensing under AL2 ( :-) ), so the code in the repository is fine.
>
> The policy may have changed, but the above was NOT true when Cayenne
> was incubating. What I suspect is happening is that there is no
> *policy* as such, and instead we have a range of opinions.
>
> What you (and Roy) are saying makes sense to me, but it goes against
> everything I know about the practiced IP clearance process at Apache.
>
> Andrus
>
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