Hi thank you all for your support. Situation is as follows: - All of the original work was contributed by paid employees. Legally, ALOIS belongs to IMSEC as IMSEC paid for all contributions. - I have signed the (original) SGA as I am the IMSEC company owner and will hand that in. - Additionally, I have signed CLAs from all contributing current employees including myself. I will hand them in these days, too. - Except for one, all original contributors still work for the company. The missing one left in 2007. I do not know if I can reach him and I do not know if he will be signing the CLA, but technically this should not be necessary, as he too contributed to ALOIS under a paid contract as an employee.
I hope this is sufficient. Please let me know if otherwise. -- Marcus -- Dr. Marcus Holthaus -- IMSEC GmbH, +41 41 780 00 11, Fax +41 41 780 00 21 -- Sonnhaldenstrasse 87, CH 6331 Hünenberg -- Please Use OpenPGP key FDBD17F2 to encrypt your mail to me. Am 29.09.2010 01:06, schrieb Marvin Humphrey: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:15:10PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> Is it sufficient if the employer of the contributors signs the Software >>> Grant, >>> or is a grant required by every of the two developer? >> >> For a Software Grant, it must be signed by the entity with full rights to do >> so. In this case, it seems that there is no single entity that can execute >> the Software Grant, so each person who has a copyright on the code needs to >> send one in. > > If I understand correctly, then it would depend on the relationship between > the contributors and the employer whether the contributors had copyright > interest. If the contributions were created as "works for hire", then > technically, I believe the contributors do not need to sign. However, it > seems to me that if the contributors sign, all ambiguity is avoided with > regards to the employer-contributor relationship, so no dispute can arise > later. We have a similar situation with the Lucy grant, and I've chosen to > include all individual contributors in addition to the employers. > Fortunately, everyone seems to be available and amenable. > > The Alois folks will have to modify the SGA form. The Incubator IP Clearance > page doesn't offer instructions on how to do so, but here's what I came up > with: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12455744/kinosearch_sga.txt > > All I did was duplicate the signature section under LICENSOR, creating one > entry for each party. Hopefully that's legitimate, and the Alois one will be > as well. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
