I have a simple non-urgent for-intellectual-curiosity-only copyright question regarding Lucy: who is the copyright holder for Lucy?
In our NOTICE file, it says "Copyright 2010-2012 The Apache Software Foundation", as required by the ASF guidelines: http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice But in the Contributor License Agreement and Software Grant Agreement, there appear to be only a grants of license rather than assignments of copyright. http://apache.org/licenses/icla.txt http://apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt The CLA defines "Contribution" as "any original work of authorship ... that is intentionally submitted by You to the Foundation", and the SGA requires that the "Licensor owns or has sufficient rights to contribute the software source code and other related intellectual property", but as I read them, the legally binding clauses only refer to granting of non-exclusive licenses. No mention that I can see is made of assigning copyright to the ASF. http://apache.org/licenses/icla.txt http://apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt So: is the ASF the copyright owner or a licensee? That is, do they have legal standing to seek remedy for license violations? I have no dog in this fight, but was confused by some comments on a recent article describing the FSF copyright assignment requirements where it was asserted that the ASF does have this requirement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956998 --nate
