That section doesn't contradict what I wrote, so I don't understand the 
question.  The only contract you have with the ASF as a committer is the ICLA, 
which is a licensing agreement not a transfer of ownership.

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On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:59 PM, Nathan Kurz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Interesting, I hadn't realized that was the approach taken.  I guess
> that leads to a followup question:  on what basis does the ASF claim
> copyright in the collected work?
> 
> 17 USC ยง 201 (c) says:
> "In the absence of an express transfer of the copyright or of any
> rights under it, the owner of copyright in the collective work is
> presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and
> distributing the contribution as part of that particular collective
> work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective
> work in the same series."
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201
> 
> This transfer does not seem to occur in the CLA or SGA.  Were there
> additional documents I'm not recalling that explicitly transferred
> this ownership?   Are these required for each project that carries the
> ASF mandatory copywrite notice?
> 
> --nate
> 
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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

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