On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:42 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...what are the best practices to follow when creating a new project, outside > the ASF, with the goal of eventually contributing that work to an existing > ASF project?...
Following as much of our maturity model [1] as possible helps - in this case I think footnote 5 is particularly relevant: "In Apache projects, the ASF owns the copyright for the collective work, i.e. the project's releases. Contributors retain copyright on their contributions but grant the ASF a perpetual copyright license for them. (5) " Similarly, the owner of an external project should make sure it owns sufficient rights on its contributions to sign our Software Grant. Which also means that the owner must be clearly defined. -Bertrand [1] https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
