On Aug 10, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Robert Dionne wrote:
IP clearance is only required for code donations i.e. code that is
being
imported into Apache for further development. It's not required for
unmodified third-party dependencies. Please see this e-mail [1]
for more
details.
I think the link that you intended to quote was:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200908.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
I reviewed my mail archives and can see where my understanding came
from but it is from traffic on a member confidential list and was one
of several competing interpretations around in March 2008 that has
subsequently been clarified by the board. Definitely legal-discuss is
the appropriate forum for the definitive answer.
I do not think that the question posed on legal-discuss really
describes the situation since the dependencies are not unmodified
copies of upstream release but are abridged and in the case of
mochiweb functionally modified.
However, even if abridgment and unintentional forking is acceptable, I
don't think it is ideal.
