On Feb 25, 2008, at 00:30, Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
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.
Either way, all contributors agree to do whatever is necessary to get
CouchDB to the ASF, that includes releasing it under AL 2 and granting
the ASF a license via the ICLA. For what I know all ICLA's should be
on file although Noah Slater's has not been confirmed yet.
Cheers
Jan
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