Hi all, Another hopefully simple question:
The Mentor guide contains the following text: > > Existing codebases need to be imported through the standard IP clearance > process. This means that a Software Grant Agreement (SGA > <http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants>) or Contributor License > Agreement (CLA <http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas>) need to be > submitted for all copyright owners. This process may take a while so it is > best to start as soon as the podling is accepted. How does this rule apply to sections of code that are released publicly under a suitable license (eg Apache/BSD/MIT) but were originally written from a different context? For example, I am working on an incubation proposal for a project that includes portions of code copied from the Chromium open source project, which is released under a BSD license but holds a copyright notice by "The Chromium Authors". It's unlikely that these authors would submit the appropriate paperwork to the ASF. Assuming that the imported project retains the notice of the original copyright, and the commits which import the code suitably track the provenance of the code, my understanding is this is acceptable under the licenses and foundation policy. However, the text in the mentor guide seems to indicate otherwise. Thanks Todd
