Hi David, thanks for your feddbacks, that shows our lack of legal knowledge (ans legal language as well :P).
Anyway, what I was pointing, is that code inside Amber contains copyrightsowned by an external entity, not the authors neither the ASF. So, I'll take your suggestion to submit that case to our legal office, in order to avoid any misunderstanding. Have a nice day, all the best, -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:51 PM, David Jencks <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think this is accurate. > On Jan 11, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Simone Tripodi wrote: > >> Hi all guys, >> >> this mail just to discuss that code donated and imported to the ASF >> repository is copyrighted (and trademarked!) only by the Apache >> Software Foundation, so no other copyright/license/trademark can be >> applied. > > This is definitely wrong. The original author(s) retain copyright to their > work. By contributing it to an apache project they _license_ it to apache. > Apache has a copyright over the aggregated work. >> >> You committers, indeed, in order to contribute to Apache Amber, signed >> a CLA that assign all rights under the Apache License so that nobody >> can make a claim afterwards anything for their contributions. > > The cla indicates that you are licensing your contributions to apache, but > you retain copyright over your work. > >> >> So please join me on replacing all contributed code with wrong headers >> with the ASF one, otherwise we cannot release Amber at all. > > My impression is that the original contributors need to be the ones to remove > other license/copyright/notice legal information. It would be best to ask on > legal-discuss before making any such changes. > > thanks > david jencks > >> >> Thank you very much in advance, all the best! >> -Simo >> >> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >> http://www.99soft.org/ >
