Hi - Isn't the question of copyright between Twitter and the author. Isn't it likely that the author was working for hire which means that Twitter does have copyright? If there is a question here then isn't this a question for legal-discuss@?
Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 15, 2017, at 9:28 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:25 AM Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:09 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> ...I'd like to understand why Heron is inclined to do a SGA rather >>> than ICLAs.... >> >> IANAL but my understanding is that the software is donated by its >> copyright owner. >> >> Java files found under https://github.com/twitter/heron have a >> "Copyright 2017 Twitter" header. >> >> My conclusion is that a software grant needs to be provided by Twitter. >> > > The key word here is "donated." Right now there are licensing issues > within the Heron code base that need to be resolved. However, all of the > originally developed code is Apache License, v2. Twitter doesn't actually > own the copyright on all of the code (see [1] as an example), because of > that I'm not sure a grant would actually be valid at this time. When > they're ready to remove the twitter headers in favor of the ASF standard > headers that would be when I expect a grant to be processed. > > > [1]: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/64bbb16137225217a5626108801a4fc2ed940382000204f8633aa378@%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E > > > >> >> -Bertrand >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
