On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Adam Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Accumulo Mentors, >> >> The Apache secretaries have received a copy of our CCLA and Software Grant. >> We haven't heard any activity on the LEGAL-100 question regarding the CCLA >> changes. So, what's the next step? Is it time to put us in for svn accounts? >> Looks like Aaron has an account, but the rest of us have not. > > Yes we can set up svn and all of that, since you all submitted iclas. > > Since you submitted the grant, if the grant has been registered by the > secretary, we could even ask infra to roll the initial import.
I'm not sure that registering the grand constitutes acceptance of the changes made to the boilerplate grant. I don't think this should stop our progress but I would like to see more explicit acceptance of the changes from someone in the corporation empowered to do so; something that I feel needs to be done before the first release > The CCLA question raises, well, questions of conscience after that. > Anyone with an icla on file can commit anything which they have rights > to. My view is that a person can certainly commit their own 'public > domain' work without an active CCLA. > > For any work in which an employer does have rights, a committer would > want to know that their employer's CCLA has been accepted. Us mentors > have to draw straws as to who pokes the officers for a response. I think it should be ok to start work while we clear up these issues. That's what the Incubator is for. Regards, Alan > > --benson > > >> >> Thanks, >> Adam >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Adam P Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We just faxed in a signed NSA CCLA and Software Grant for Accumulo. >>> >>> As Billie mentioned earlier, the Software Grant is unmodified, with a >>> caveat in the Exhibit A (List of software and other intellectual property >>> covered by this agreement), to state that some portions of Accumulo are in >>> the public domain, and that the copyright license is granted only for those >>> materials for which there is copyright. >>> >>> The CCLA is slightly modified. We broadened the definition of "You" (or >>> "Your") in section one to include "the owner of a contribution not subject >>> to copyright". We also modified the Grant of Copyright License in section >>> two to include the clause "to the extent that copyright exists in the >>> Contribution(s)". The full text of the modified CCLA is attached. Should we >>> pose this as a question to the LEGAL jira now to see if ASF will accept >>> these changes? >>> >>> Adam >>> >>
