Hello list, and welcome to the ASF! Sorry for chiming in late, I just
discovered GMail thought that everything that was sent to this list
was spam, hopefully this is corrected now.
On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:09:50PM +0100, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
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 :-)
This is incorrect.
We all agreed to reclience the code under the APL but I did not
agree to assign
copyright to anyone and the source contains files that are
seperately licenced
by my self, Jan and Damien. Chris was the only person who assigned
copyright to
Damien for this contribution.
I'm a tad concerned about this statement. Notwithstanding which
copyright assignment were performed in the past, I just wanted to
double check that every copyright holder of CouchDB code agrees to
donate their software to the ASF via a copyright assignment. While
individuals will still retain their copyright, the one and only way
to work with Apache is with the foundation having code copyright
assigned. Am I right in assuming that every CouchDB contributor
agrees to (a) donate the existing code to the ASF via a code grant/
copyright assignment and (b) assign copyright to the ASF via the CLA
for present/future work?
Thanks,
--
Gianugo Rabellino
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