We've only seen positive messages from the community at large about the move, all supporting and praising the decision, in various forms, whether on our mailing-lists, or twitter, etc. So the community is already aware of it and supports this move.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Martijn Dashorst < martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would the discussion on the dev@groovy list be enough 'evidence' for > the intent of the community to move to Apache? > > Then it would possible be sufficient to archive those messages for > posterity (but I'm no lawyer) > > Martijn > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So ultimately, what do we do? > > Do I (current Groovy project lead, thus project representative) need to > > sign something "on behalf of the Groovy community" or something like > that? > > Or we just skip this step altogether since that's the community's > intention > > as a whole? > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> If a single legal entity has the copyright, the entity makes a grant. > >> If the code was built by a large community under the apache license, > >> there's no one to make a grant. 'The community' expressing its desire > >> to move to Apache is enough. This is an edge case of the principle > >> that we only accept code when the copyright owner has a positive > >> intent to contribute it; there's no way to test that for everyone who > >> ever made a 2-line patch. Reference Subversion, I think. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Cédric Champeau > >> <cedric.champ...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> In the case of groovy, does Pivotal own it or does someone else own > it? > >> > > >> > Nobody owns it. > >> > > >> >> If > >> >> I look at https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/master/NOTICE > it > >> >> indicates that an entity known as "The Groovy community" owns it, in > >> which > >> >> case the SGA should probably come from them, no? Or is "The Groovy > >> >> community" not a legal entity? > >> >> > >> >> The Groovy community is not a legal entity. A lot of people > contributed > >> to > >> > Groovy already, and in the Groovy ecosystem, the community is a notion > >> > larger than the language itself. > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Guillaume Laforge > > Groovy Project Manager > > > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > > Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ > > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> > > > > -- > Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
