Great, Darcy, thanks! I'm copying the Derby Developer community so they
know where things stand. The main thing we need from Stephen is for him
to sign an ICLA and to clarify the copyrights on the files (they say
copyright 2004 but we suspect 2005?).
Thanks,
David
Darcy Benoit wrote:
Hi there. Stephen Fitch is the student that I am talking about. He has
recently graduated, and has taken a full-time job with the government.
He should be starting work soon. I've emailed him at one address that I
have, and I'll try him again at another email address. I'm prompting him
to get this done and over with, as I would hate to see this contribution
not make it into the code base.
darcy
On Tue, 23 May 2006 13:44:52 -0300, David Van Couvering
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Darcy. The student you mentioned who had implemented an in-memory
store for Derby -- is his name Stephen Fitch?
If not, you can ignore the rest of this email. Whoever your student is
does need to provide a patch and also likely sign an Individual
Contributor License Agreement.
If Stephen Fitich *is* the contributor, we have his contribution at
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-646
but the problem is, as you can see from the comments on this JIRA item,
that Stephen never submitted an Individual Contributor License
Agreement, or ICLA. Without that, we can not accept his contribution.
We also are concerned about the fact that some files have a copyright
date starting at 1984. Does Stephen own the copyright on all this code,
or did he obtain it elsewhere?
Until we get these things cleared up, as much as we want to we can't
take his code, and that would be a real waste.
We have tried contacting Stephen directly but he's not responding to his
emails. Do you know how to reach him?
Thanks,
David
--Dr. Darcy Benoit
http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/
