Answers inline: On 13/05/2015 14:24, "Stefan Reich" <stefan.reich.maker.of....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hi again! > >I was silent because I am thinking... :) (Also I am making releases of my >software.) > >I am trying to understand Apache. Take a look at community.apache.org - there is a lot of good introductory material there > >It seems the voting processes are of big importance. I would like to know >who exactly gets to vote. All members of a mailing list? If yes, it seems >like an easily manipulatable process... Anyone who participates in the community is invited to vote, votes are held on the mailing list so in practise this is the portion of the community on the mailing list For some procedural votes e.g. releases which are a legal act of the foundation for which the PMC takes responsibility then there is the notion of binding versus non-binding votes See http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html for more information How would you expect someone to manipulate this? > >Also, who is officially the copyright owner on the Apache products? >Because >that is a tremendous power position it seems to me. The Apache License (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) includes explicit terms for this in Clause 2 Essentially in non-lawyer speak: - Contributors retain the copyright to their contribution - Contributors grant a copyright license to all downstream users of their contributions that permits redistribution, modification, sub licensing etc Rob > >All the best, >Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
