Like most volunteers at OpenOffice.org I signed a contributor agreement years ago. Actually, many of the committers listed in the proposal signed one of: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/jca.pdf Joint Copyright Assignment http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf Sun Contributor Agreement http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf Oracle Contributor Agreement
All the three versions, enforced in different periods of time, grant Oracle (joint) ownership of the contributions committed to the "OpenOffice.org project" and cannot be revoked, in the sense that they apply to any future contributions too. It's unclear to me whether this would have implications on the proposed Apache project. Is there some official continuity in place that transfers validity of these agreements to the Apache project too (i.e., my future contributions to the Apache project will still be co-owned by Oracle, since by continuity the Apache project is still to be considered the "OpenOffice.org project")? Or this legacy does not exist and all agreements in place will become void? I know about the iCLA policy, but here I'm just interested in the pre-existing agreements with Sun/Oracle. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
