On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) <
chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Please re-read my email. As I stated we don’t take code that
> authors don’t want us to have.
Surely it depends on how that work was licensed before the ASF?
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party
Niall
> So far, we haven’t heard from any of
> the authors on the incoming Kudu project that that’s the case. If
> it’s not the case, we go by the license of the project which stipulates
> how code can be copied, modified, reused, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>
> Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2015 at 8:14 AM
> To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Kudu incubator proposal
>
> >
> >
> >On 11/22/15, 12:51 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)"
> ><chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >
> >>If they have code contributions part of
> >>this
> >>code base, that they don’t want included, they can state that. It was my
> >>understanding this code base was Apache License, version 2, beforehand,
> >>thus
> >>we have the ability to include and modify their code as part of an ALv2
> >>licensed code base, that is being brought to the ASF.
> >
> >I thought there was a "rule" that Apache projects don't "take" code,
> >regardless of license. IOW, that every line code must be "donated" to the
> >ASF via SGA or CLA. That would imply that unless the contributors for
> >every line of code in the incoming the code base have documented their
> >donation, that the code base will need documentation (via LICENSE and
> >maybe comments in the files and headers) as to what AL code remains
> >third-party and which is officially part of the ASF project. Sure, the
> >fact that the code is under AL lets you include and modify, but I think
> >that without such documentation that code is "bundled" and third-party. I
> >thought the default is that it isn't "included" and they need to state
> >that it is ok for it to be "included".
> >
> >Otherwise, there's a pile of Google Code and GitHub projects I'm going to
> >grab for my project.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >-Alex
> >
> >
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