I believe the code in question is code imported from other projects (e.g. Apache Storm) which was not written by employees of Twitter.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:05 PM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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 > >
