LEGAL-658
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 17:43, J. D. Jordan <jeremiah.jor...@gmail.com> wrote: > The software grant agreement covers all donated code. The ASF does not > need any historical agreements. The agreement giving the ASF copyright etc > is the Software Grant Agreement. Yes, any future work done after donation > needs to be covered by ASF CLAs. > > But happy to see someone ask legal@ to confirm this so we can move > forward. > > On Oct 6, 2023, at 3:33 AM, Benedict <bened...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Are we certain about that? It’s unclear to me from the published guidance; > would be nice to get legal to weigh in to confirm to make sure we aren’t > skipping any steps, as we haven’t been involved until now so haven’t the > visibility. At the very least it reads to me that anyone expected to be > maintaining the software going forwards should have a CLA on file with ASF, > but I’d have expected the ASF to also want a record of the historic CLAs. > > On 6 Oct 2023, at 09:28, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 17:50, Jeremiah Jordan <jeremiah.jor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think this is covered by the grant agreement? >> >> https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant-template.pdf >> >> 2. Licensor represents that, to Licensor's knowledge, Licensor is >> legally entitled to grant the above license. Licensor agrees to notify >> the Foundation of any facts or circumstances of which Licensor becomes >> aware and which makes or would make Licensor's representations in this >> License Agreement inaccurate in any respect. >> >> >> >> On Oct 5, 2023 at 4:35:08 AM, Benedict <bened...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Surely it needs to be shared with the foundation and the PMC so we can >>> verify? Or at least have ASF legal confirm they have received and are >>> satisfied with the tarball? It certainly can’t be kept private to DS, >>> AFAICT. >>> >>> Of course it shouldn’t be shared publicly but not sure how PMC can >>> fulfil its verification function here without it >>> >> > > Correct, thanks JD. > > These are CLAs that were submitted to DS, not to ASF. > > It is DS's legal responsibility to ensure what they are donating they have > the right to (i.e. have the copyright), when submitting the SGA. It's not > on the ASF or the PMC to verify this. Here we're simply demonstrating that > we (DS) have done that due diligence, and are keeping record of it. > > >
