On 03/06/2011 04:07, James Kosin wrote:
(2) The licensing is also an issue, and a serious one at that. When a
project goes into Apache the entire project needs to be signed over by
all supporters and all code either signed over by all the copyright
holders or the copy-protected code removed. Which may lead to an
unusable project... if everyone doesn't agree to the terms of the
transfer. And yes, it means all parties that hold a stake in the software.
This is not the case.
Oracle owns all copyright in contributions to date and they have already
signed the grant to allow Apache to sublicence it. The grant is
identical to the one all other projects coming in sign, see
http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/software-grant.txt
If there are dependencies that Oracle do not own these need to be
addressed on a case by case basis. That is part of the incubation
process. It would be helpful if the proposal identified what licence
incompatibilities there are, this has been requested and promised in
another thread. The incubator is experieced with dealing with these
issues once clearly identified.
Future contributions are made under the standard Apache CLA which grants
a licence allowing the ASF to relicence the copyrighted material.
Copyright remains with the original contributor.
Ross
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