On 26 Sep 2003, Jason van Zyl wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 01:34, Juancarlo A�ez wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > There are some interesting legalities. When we donate code to Apache, we
> > obviously are giving ownership of that code over to the ASF.
>
> The original author also retains copyright. And given that no one else

Really? Good.

> has contributed to the project Juan is basically the only committer, in
> addition the project is in the sandbox. It is really only a problem if
> the ASF were going to pursue anything and is it really for a project in
> the sandbox with a single author who wishes to leave and keep the name
> of his project. Probably not.

I'd like it if there were some nice plan by which we can let this kind of
thing happen. A statement from the PMC or something saying that they
relinquish the copyright on the project or something.

At the same time though, I don't want to get Juanco bogged down in red
tape for a pedantic reason, so it's not a big deal for me.

Hen


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