Re: Question about mixed source documentation

2006-10-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ted Husted wrote: > By contributing the documentation, you are assigning an non-exclusive, > non-revocable copywrite to that version of the material. Essentially correct, but did you mean "copyright license" :? But yes - not exclusive - you can republish _your_ own contributions under different l

Re: Question about mixed source documentation

2006-10-10 Thread Leo Simons
Hi Eric, From the ASF point of view, it is your responsibility to ensure you can contribute the thing you're contributing (under CLA and/or CCLA). From your employer's point of view, this is probably a good question to ask your lawyer / legal people. Basically you need to make sure there

Re: Question about mixed source documentation

2006-10-09 Thread Ted Husted
By contributing the documentation, you are assigning an non-exclusive, non-revocable copywrite to that version of the material. If you are also using the same material elsewhere, and also grant that entity a copyright, that's OK, because the copyright to ASF is non-exclusive. An essential questio

Question about mixed source documentation

2006-10-09 Thread Johnson, Eric
If I am contributing documentation to a project using Confluence wiki, but also need to write commercial documentation for a product based on the Apache project what is the appropriate approach from a licensing point of view? The commercial documentation will not be created using Confluence, but in