ASF has copyright on the collected work known as Lucy. Individual authors maintain copyright over their contributions. In court it means a transgressor may be sued by both parties.
HTH Sent from my iPhone On Dec 22, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Nathan Kurz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
