On Aug 5, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Hi,
On 5 Aug 2009, at 07:04, Noah Slater wrote:
Also, we're a TLP now! Hehe.
I'm researching the steps needed to land another code-base in
CouchDB that was developed externally. After consulting with ASF
members, the consensus is that code drops need to be IP-cleared by
the incubator. This is separate from running a project through
incubation. The incubator is simply the place where the most people
are knowledgeable about IP issues and is defined as the place to
record IP clearance.
I don't know if reverting is really necessary in the current case,
but for the future we should follow the standard ASF practice.
Cheers
Jan
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IP clearance through the Incubator PMC is required for all externally
developed code bases: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
.
3rd Party policy: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party
On Aug 5, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
The license is an MIT license:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Which is a Category A license:
http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
Which means we don't have to clear it explicitly.
Generally when Apache projects use open-source code with compatible
licenses, they don't insert the code base into the Apache SVN and
redistribute a fork. Dumping substantial non-ASL'd sources into the
SVN is quite atypical.
If erlang-oauth is the only part of the contribution that is not an
original work, then I'd recommend removing it from the SVN until we
get this resolved. My understanding is that couch_http_oauth would
still compile, just would fail to load if erlang-oauth were not
available.
I did a quick scan of my local archive of the incubator mailing list
and didn't see much discussion on CouchDB's inclusion of other source
code except for this fragment of the April 2008 board report which
indicates that the direction was to remove forked code from CouchDB
itself, not add more.
On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
=== CouchDB ===
CouchDB is a distributed document-oriented database system written in
Erlang. The project entered incubation on February 12th, 2008.
The infrastructure (SVN, JIRA, mailing lists, and web-site) has been
set up,
and the team has moved source, documentation, and bug reports from
their
former homes to the ASF.
Work has continued on removing code forked from other projects from
the
CouchDB codebase. This includes Mozilla !SpiderMonkey, the code for
which
was previously included with CouchDB in slightly modified form.
Instead, it
is now treated as an external compile-time dependency via a custom C
wrapper
using the !SpiderMonkey API. Also, work is currently in progress on
replacing the dependency on a forked version of `inets`, which is
part of
the Erlang standard library (EPL), with the MIT-licensed !MochiWeb
library.
For the time being, the !MochiWeb code is included in the CouchDB
codebase,
mostly because there has been no official release of that library yet.
I don't think this can be ignored and we can do it right the next time
and the situation is atypical enough that Incubator PMC guidance is
warranted.
p.s.: No reason you should know, but I'm an ASF member too.
