Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread jan i
On 14 November 2014 21:38, David Nalley wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the vote thread about [1] a question came up about the following > > clause, from our IP clearance form: > > > >> Check and make sure that the files that have been do

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread David Nalley
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > In the vote thread about [1] a question came up about the following > clause, from our IP clearance form: > >> Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been >> updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. > >

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Alex Harui wrote: >> ...Copyright law, AIUI, prevents the receiving project from moving copyrights >> without the copyright owner’s permission. Thus, if the donor has time to >> insert Apache headers

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: (about the "quarantine" folder) > ...good idea If you do the internal area, I would ensure it is not > publicly visible to non-apache.org users then... That's not needed IMO, as long as we don't release the code it's fine to have co

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
Right, good idea If you do the internal area, I would ensure it is not publicly visible to non-apache.org users then. In Github we can get away with it as it is a bit cowboy land (most small projects don't even state their license!!).. but you wouldn't want to end up with projects that live too lon

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > For our incubator project (Taverna), we saw the need to reorganize our > current git repositories... > We therefore have made a separate staging area on Github, and then > basically we will move from github.com/taverna/* to > gith

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Alex, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > ...Copyright law, AIUI, prevents the receiving project from moving copyrights > without the copyright owner’s permission. Thus, if the donor has time to > insert Apache headers and move copyrights to NOTICE, that is very helpful, > bu

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-13 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
I think it's good to be flexible here depending on the project's needs. A fresh project might need more help that is easiest to achieve after transitioning the code to Apache. Some of the terminology of the incubator assumes the incubator project is showing up on the Apache doorstep with a USB key

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-13 Thread Alex Harui
On 11/13/14, 2:18 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: >Hi, > >In the vote thread about [1] a question came up about the following >clause, from our IP clearance form: > >> Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been >> updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. > >I think th

Re: IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-13 Thread jan i
On 13 November 2014 11:18, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > In the vote thread about [1] a question came up about the following > clause, from our IP clearance form: > > > Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been > > updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. > > I t

IP clearance clarification: copyright notices

2014-11-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, In the vote thread about [1] a question came up about the following clause, from our IP clearance form: > Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been > updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. I think this actually covers two distinct things: 1) Moving any existing