I'll send a note to that Apache list; thanks for the reference. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:49 PM Mike Drob <md...@apache.org> wrote:
> I would check with legal-discuss@a.o to be sure, but here is my > understanding of relevant ASF policies: > > All work done and contributed by an individual is bound by the terms of > your ICLA. You retain the copyright ownership under ASLv2, but have granted > the ASF (an irrevocable?) permission and license to use your work. > > If the work is copyright assigned to a different organization, then I > believe it has to be brought in as a 3rd party work. It can retain the > original headers, as long as the terms as compatible, and needs to be > called out in NOTICE file like you alluded to. > > Dev-for-hire work happens pretty regularly in today's world; I don't think > anybody is under the illusion that Lucene is built solely by a group of > hobbyists. CCLAs cover most of the cases where the funding organization is > willing to forgo copyright ownership, but that doesn't sound like the case > here. > > I'm not sure what happens if a different person comes in later and finds a > bug and makes changes to those files. Presumably we're fine, but some > people might feel a little strange assigning copyright back to a unknown > company instead of licensing use to the ASF. > > Mike > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:19 PM, david.w.smi...@gmail.com < > david.w.smi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm considering doing some enhancements to Lucene/Solr on behalf of >> another organization/entity who wants me to include copyright statements to >> them. Same ASLv2 license. This is no big deal; right? I see we've >> already got some source files with non-ASF copyright licenses (e.g. >> Automata.java and others), and I see we have NOTICE files referencing it >> too. I also see some special support in common-build.xml to detect it. >> >> ~ David >> -- >> Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker >> LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: >> http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com >> > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
