On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Jan Lehnardt wrote:
On Feb 21, 2008, at 22:02, Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Christopher Lenz wrote:
So IIUC one prerequesite to getting the code into the Apache
repository is having CLAs on file for all contributors? How do
we know what the status is in that respect?
Has anyone checked the status of the switch from GPL to ALv2?
I found the announcement (link below) but not a lot beyond that.
Were all the original authors contacted for the licence change or
was there some form of copyright assignment to "couchddb"?
Damien Katz is the sole author of CouchDB, Noah Slater's work is
the build system and Christopher Lenz developed the administration
interface. I contributed the initial Lucene part of the fulltext
search and some minor things. We all were aware of the License
change and informally agreed to assign any copyright to Damien. I
don't know if that is sufficient for the situation but that's how
it stands :-)
Not sure of the legal details, but having a small number of
existing contributors and they are all involved here (right?)
should make it easy to resolve.
As long as we have everyone, and it sounds like we do, then this
should be pretty easy to resolve. I'm not sure exactly of the
mechanics - it may just be that the initial import is of a version
with all the license headers changed to AL 2.0. I guess we need to
ping legal-discuss about this...
Ted
