On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Robert Leland wrote: > You've acknowledged that when you commit any code to Apache you give up > ownership of that code.
That's not quite right. When you commit any code to Apache (under the Contributors License Agreement), you grant the ASF a non-exclusive right to that code. You retain your rights on your contributions, you're just sharing some rights with the ASF as well. > Also what is said on the Web site is governed by the same Apache > license. In order to endorse > any product or company on an Apache web site there needs to be written > permission > from the Apache Foundation. The fact that no other company is officially > endorsed > (Maven has some hidden acknowledgments in it's plug-in docs) says you > are asking for a > new precedent to be set. While you certainly could make suggestions in > the negotiating terms, > if that is what the Apache Foundation member, wants to do, is not your > responsibility. > It is your responsibility to bring this matter to the Apache Foundation > as a good steward. It's not clear to me exactly what Howard and or WebCT is asking for. > Also plain committers like us are not Apache Foundation members. - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
