OK thanks for that feedback. These contributions were not specifically assigned to me by the comitters, so I think there copyright status is disputable. I dont think we need to consider this aspect further, and should just proceed as normal.
regards Malcolm Edgar On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 30, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Malcolm Edgar wrote: > >> 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. > > If you have signed documents from each author saying that they > have irrevocably assigned copyright to you, then you have copyright > ownership of the work and there is no need to bother anyone else. > > However, I think that is unlikely, given the discussion so far. > Just placing a notice on top of the work doesn't give you copyright, > not does committing to a file that has such a notice constitute > assigning copyright. Contributions to an Apache Licensed work are > understood to be covered by the license itself (when no CLA is given), > which defines a nonexclusive license and not copyright assignment. > >> However I don't know whether this copright statement would has legal >> standing, or is in the spirity of Apache. > > If it has legal standing, then Apache has no choice but to accept it. > Assignment, though, has very specific legal requirements. The spirit > of Apache still requires that all the current committers on the project > sign an iCLA, since that establishes a common agreement on their > future contributions to any ASF project. > > ....Roy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
