Nevertheless, contacting the authors and including them in the process is a great opportunity for community building.
The contact doesn't even have to be framed as a request for permission. It can be more of a friendly notification along thes sorts of lines On Jun 17, 2015, Ted Dunning suggested: > Hey... just wanted to let you know that the docs are being relicensed > under ASL so that we can include them in the releases going forward. This > was covered by the original grant you gave us so you don't have to take any > action right now. Love your work and look forward to working with you and > the rest of the community going forward On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So given this grant, indeed, why do we even bother at all??? > > IANAL, but this is exactly my understanding as well -- everything that has > been covered by the grant *may* be relicensed. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-h...@apache.org > >
