On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:11 AM, Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
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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.
The ASF does not use copyright assignments. The ICLA is a copyright
licence from the copyright holder to the ASF, not an assignment.
The ASF claims copyright on the collected work.
Sorry, bad wording, thanks for pointing that out. Now, considering s/
assignment/license/g done, is everyone OK with that? My point is that
licensing code under the AL isn't quite enough, the ASF needs to be
able to deal with copyright as well.
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