Ferdinand Soethe wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > If you tell the list what your general aim is then > > we can see what any legal issues might be. We can also > > seek help from the Apache "legal-discuss" mailing list. > > It is actually quite simple to describe: > > I want to donate the concept for the English language version of our > book to Apache while keeping all the rights for the German version to > avoid any conflicts or problems with my publishers. > > The (potential) problem is that in the publishing world you can > license the right to publish different language versions separately > (e.g. to different publishers) but I'm not sure if that works with the > Apache license.
I am not going to attempt to interpret the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for this case, as i still don't know the facts nor what it is that you would actually be contributing. Also IANAL so it would be misleading for me to say anything. I suggest that the best way forward is for you and Ross to present a clear case to the ASF Legal Discussion mailing list. http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal Until that is clarified, we cannot proceed with a proposal for the Apache Forrest project to take such a direction. --David
