One possible complication to this is that all the code in Click currently has a copyright header assigned to Malcolm Edgar, even if they were contributed from other comitters. So in committing code people have explicity assigned their copyright to me. This was a habit I picked up from working on Tapestry.
However I don't know whether this copright statement would has legal standing, or is in the spirity of Apache. regards Malcolm Edgar On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Let's take this to legal-discuss and see what comes out. After all, that >> is where the lawyers lurk. > > Good idea. > > Also keep in mind that the problem scope is not limited to the projects > coming to the incubator. It also affects contributions to the existing > projects by new people. Currently anything beyond a trivial patch (submitted > via Jira with "include in ASF product" radio button), requires an ICLA. We > specifically tell people to sign an ICLA. With Roy's interpretation, we > should be telling them "post this code on the web somewhere, adding a BSD > license header, and we'll use it". > > Andrus > > > > On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> -- >> Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | JEE, Linux, Unix >> 91054 Buckenhof, Germany -- +49 9131 506540 | Apache Java Software >> Open Source Consulting, Development, Design | >> >> INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH - RG Fuerth, HRB 7350 >> Gesellschaftssitz: Buckenhof. Geschaeftsfuehrer: Henning Schmiedehausen >> >> char name_buf[257]; /* max unix filename is 256, right? */ >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
