Just reading it: http://www.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/About/Full_Member_agreement_2007.pdf
it seems to me, but IANAL and far from being, that the IP is granted to the OSGi Alliance when working *for* the OSGi Alliance. My understanding is that it's mostly about RFP / RFC / RI / TCK development. AFAIK, Felix have some RI for the ConfigAdmin, so either this issue has been dealt with or has been missed somehow ... On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:43, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Bill Stoddard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think the main issue here is whether the ASF can comply with the T&Cs of >> being a full OSGi Alliance member, specifically the T&Cs around the IP >> policies. While in theory, the OSGi Alliance might consider a fee waiver, I >> don't expect them to make T&C exceptions for anyone, ASF included. > > You could be right. It was quite a long time ago I read the "new" > membership agreement, put in place early 2008 I think it was. > > But, AFAIR, the main 'issue' that I saw myself, at that time when my > company was a member, was not in the membership agreement, but the > Statement Of Work (I think it was called), which after signed allowed > you to contribute to an expert group. The SoW regulated a lot of the > IP rights, which may or may not be incompatible with Apache views. > Should dig up the membership agreement and have a look, I guess... > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
