Re: Advice on a legal aspect of code contribution

2016-04-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Alexander Bezzubov wrote: > ...It was created and sent as a patch by an individual contributor who owns > the IP on 1 (not a committer) and I was under impression that it should be > treated as a regular patch (includes few new files) as we did with similar > c

Re: Advice on a legal aspect of code contribution

2016-03-31 Thread Alexander Bezzubov
Thank you very much for the kind guidance and the detailed explanation. It helps and makes perfect sense for me. One thing though, on 1 - it looks like I have unintentionally confuse people with the word "complex code contribution", which I referred to the structure of the patch received, rather

Re: Advice on a legal aspect of code contribution

2016-03-31 Thread John D. Ament
Ideally, you would also seek out an SGA from all companies involved in the contribution. If its all Lightbend, they should be able to provide an SGA to move the code into an Apache donation, including the license. John On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:09 AM Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu

Re: Advice on a legal aspect of code contribution

2016-03-31 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Alexander Bezzubov wrote: > ...The contribution consists of many files that are going to be part of the > release:... As you have 3 categories of source code files in this contribution I suggest handling all 3 separately, creating a ticket in your issue track

Advice on a legal aspect of code contribution

2016-03-30 Thread Alexander Bezzubov
Dear Incubator, in Apache Zeppelin (incubating) we recently received quite complex code contribution, so I'm looking for an advice from more experienced IPMC members here on the legal side. The contribution consists of many files that are going to be part of the release: 1. some are original aut