Hi, I will check with Twitter Legal next week too. They are pretty busy; hopefully we can get some response from them.
2017-09-20 10:14 GMT-07:00 Karthik Ramasamy <kart...@streaml.io>: > CLA agreements from individual contributors are with Twitter. I am not at > Twitter anymore. Perhaps Twitter folks can check? > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:28 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > That's actually really useful information, thanks Karthik! > > > > Do you have the ability to send the CLAs to us, for all contributors to > > Heron? > > > > John > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:18 AM Karthik Ramasamy <kart...@streaml.io> > > wrote: > > > > > All - > > > > > > Just to clarify - as far as I know, Storm code is used only at two > > places - > > > for ensuring API compatibility (a thin wrapper on the underlying Heron > > API) > > > and for implementation of Window functions (with modifications). Rest > of > > > the code were original contributions from people at > > > Twitter/Streamlio/Microsoft/Google/Fitbit/Wanda Group and other > > companies. > > > > > > When a new contributor contributes code, he/she has to accept an CLA > > > available at > > > > > > https://legal.twitter.com/contributor-license-agreement.html > > > > > > cheers > > > /karthik > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > > > bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 6:28 PM, John D. Ament < > johndam...@apache.org> > > > > wrote: > > > > > ...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... > > > > > > > > I guess that's the key point then: who owns the copyright on the code > > > > that's being donated. > > > > > > > > From the Incubator PMC's perspective, what's needed IMO is a > > > > documented statement of that, and maybe a LEGAL- ticket to clarify > > > > things if needed. > > > > > > > > Statements like "I believe X is the owner" don't work, you need > > > > documented evidence. > > > > > > > > -Bertrand > > > > > > > > > [1]: > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ > 64bbb16137225217a5626108801a4f > > > > c2ed940382000204f8633aa378@%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E > > > > > > > > > > -- With my best Regards ------------------ Fu Maosong Twitter Inc. Mobile: +001-415-244-7520
