On 2010-06-28 07:49, Sami Siren wrote: > One aspect that has not been discussed yet is the legal aspect. > According to > http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html there is a formal > process for integrating externally development efforts that have > happened outside of Apache. Should we be following the ip clearance > process in this case too?
The concept of a "substantial contribution" that should be subject to a software grant is somewhat tenuous, though. Keep in mind that you do something equivalent in JIRA already - when you check the "Grant license to ASF" box you perform a micro-grant. So the question is whether we should go through a full grant or through the JIRA micro-grant. In my opinion it's ok to do the latter, since much of the code is simply a modified version of Nutch classes - not counting GORA, of course, but that part will be added as a third-party lib. So IMHO it's enough to zip all source (without libs), attach it to a JIRA issue and mark the checkbox. Then we follow the process outlined by Chris, which imports the same codebase into our svn. What do you think? If folks agree that this is sufficient, then Dogacan & Enis - can you please create a separate JIRA issue, prepare a patch like this, mark the checkbox, and list all dependencies and their licenses for those that are not already in Nutch svn? -- Best regards, Andrzej Bialecki <>< ___. ___ ___ ___ _ _ __________________________________ [__ || __|__/|__||\/| Information Retrieval, Semantic Web ___|||__|| \| || | Embedded Unix, System Integration http://www.sigram.com Contact: info at sigram dot com
