Yeah, I don't think Cloudera owns the copyright to either (Mustache was written by me, and is hosted on my private Github). Even if they did, I don't think there's any compelling reason to grant the copyright to the ASF. Both components would be replaceable if it was ever required.
On 6 October 2016 at 08:55, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know much about mustache, but as far as Squeasel goes, Cloudera > doesn't own the copyright and thus can't contribute it. It's a fork of > another project (Mongoose) which switched licensing to an incompatible one > once we were already using it. Due to the license switch, we made a copy of > the prior release that we were using and renamed it. But, the copyright > still remains with the original authors, as far as I understand. > > -Todd > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Impala community, with our mentors, should decide if we should > > request from CLoudera na additional software grant for our thirdparty > > components. > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d0c3482cccb3d8bc0a121c14bd269c > > 98fb078213e79432ad164d4e62@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E > > > > Mustache and Squeasel are small components (4202 lines of code, total) > > and we can include them in Impala because they are permissively > > licensed. However, it may make sense for them to have a software grant > > to the ASF if they "contain a patented algorithm or [are] core to how > > Impala works". > > > > My suspicion is that they do not and are not. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
