Hello all, thanks again for encouraging interest and support. I went through the (somewhat scattered) information about the donation / IP clearance processes and would like to clarify a few things. Is it OK to do this on the list or better to take that to a private conversation, since it's a rather mundane administrative stuff?
Premek On 16 June 2011 14:12, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > I agree with both JB and Toni, we definitely want to accept this donation, > and it would be great if the two of you could pick it up (not trying to > exclude anybody else that wants to work on this, feel free to join in). > > To explain the process of donating something, the following links are > probably helpful: > http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#poding-ip-clearance > > Greetings, Marcel > > > On 16 Jun 2011, at 13:39 , Toni Menzel wrote: > >> Great!! Nice to hear that. Would love to assist as i am also getting into >> the "mood" of developing Eclipse Plugins .. though. >> Thanks for the donation! >> >> Toni >> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré >> <j...@nanthrax.net>wrote: >> >>> Hi Premek, >>> >>> it's really a great news !! >>> Thanks for this donation. >>> >>> I will be pleased to review it and mentor the integration of ACE IDE in >>> ACE. >>> >>> Thanks again >>> Regards >>> JB >>> >>> >>> On 06/16/2011 12:16 PM, Přemek Brada wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Marcel and everybody, >>>> >>>> On 10 June 2011 20:23, Marcel Offermans<marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> As the project currently >>>>>> stands, I'm quite open to donating it to ACE and re-license under ASL >>>>>> -- I'll discuss this with my student (who under our law is the sole >>>>>> holder of copyright) and then post to the list in that respect. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That would be nice. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I spoke to the student developer, and he is willing to pass the >>>> project on to the Apache ACE project, re-licensing under ASL. Both him >>>> and I would however like to make sure that his (and our university) >>>> contribution does not disappear by doing so, ie that he can reference >>>> back to his work after it is part of ACE. >>>> >>>> So I would like to ask for help with the donation and transition. My >>>> rough idea is that >>>> >>>> 1. we create a jira ticket for this >>>> 2. we clarify the origin of the code (some minor pieces were reused >>>> from other open source projects) >>>> 3. an archive with cleaned up source (author in javadocs, correct >>>> license header) is attached to the ticket >>>> 4. paperwork related to the donation and IP clearance is done (?) >>>> 5. someone with committer rights imports the sources to the repository >>>> 6. documentation is transferred to ACE wiki >>>> >>>> but obviously I am not completely sure about the process and its many >>>> details. Could you please clarify it for us? (Maybe outside the >>>> mailing list 'coz I assume it will be boring details for most other >>>> people.) >>>> >>>> Since the student is currently awaiting final exams, he will not >>>> probably be available until the start of July; so I guess the whole >>>> thing will be done during the summer months depending on when each of >>>> us is available. >>>> >>>> Premek >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Toni Menzel Source <http://tonimenzel.com> > > -- Premek Brada (Ing et MSc, PhD) Lecturer in Software enginering, Webmaster Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, CZ << brada at kiv.zcu.cz | www.kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/ | +420-377-63-2435 >>
