Christian Haul wrote:
IANAL, but AFAIK the code has to be formally donated to the ASF, and things like the one at the end have to be decided by the ASF.Hi all.Since the long pending patch of the SAP R3 components is bugging me I wanted to work on it. I'm a bit lost on the included licence, though. Could someone more knowledgable please advice on the further course of action on these components? http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9075 The licence seems to be OK. What about the part on SAP at the very end?
I attached to this message an example of a license grant that should be signed by the donor.
In any case, please keep the PMC notified at all times, and for special cases like the bottom part, please query the board. They have a meeting today, so if you send a note to them, they could talk about it right away.
If you need further help, I'm here :-)
Thanks for doing this, very much appreciated.
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