Feels very much in the "innocent" camp to me. On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > >
