Peter Donald wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:14, Stephen McConnell wrote:Unfortunately this does not clarify the point you commented on concering dual copyright. I actually been over thjis material in detail together with all of the board minutes since the founding of Apache - been doinbg a log of digging over the last week.
Can you provide me with a Jakarta or Board level reference to this
position ?
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/source.html
That's correct - the orignal move to SF address the meltdown doing on inside Intalio/Exolab at the time. We expected to be able to continue a dialog with the people we know inside the respective companies. As it turned out - the primary contacts within the group al lost their jobs and following up on the process shifted to members on the board who at the time were much more concerned about Intalio fund raising activities.
However I made it quite clear prior to any exolab stuff to Apache that copyright assignment must take place. It was one of the reasons you went to sourceforge first IRC.
There has only ever one place where someone attempted to do such a thing (at least that I am aware of). That was when Jason Hunter wanted to distribute source he wrote in his book without crediting Apache.This is the sort of thing I would like to get clarification on. The email you referred to makes in effect a statement of preconditions related to the basis on which assignment was made. Technically I agree with the dual copyright position - but all this really means is that there is an assignment of rights between Hunter and Apache. The differenc between this and the Exolab case is the Exolab require that recognition and inclusion of the copyright statements attributed to the Exolab content. Sufice to say that this is all much cleaner when code is donated.
End result is the dual copyright was removed and assignment took place. Heres a remanent;
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-ant/src/main/com/oreilly/servlet/Attic/MailMessage.java
I confess that I have not given this issue the attention it should have received - appologies for that, however - I've contacted several members of the Jakarta PMC yesterday to get guidance on this matter (some feedback already in - more actions to take care of tommorow).
Cheers, Steve.
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