HI, That’s not quite correct; the ASF doesn’t ask for copyright transfer, just permission to distribute under the Apache license. But yes, a contribution that is 3rd party code is not really a contribution in strict terms and 3rd party code is treated differently to code contributed to an ASF project under the Apache license.
Kind Regards, Justin > On 11 Dec 2023, at 1:54 am, Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/10/2023 7:15 AM, Alan C. Assis wrote: >> I understand your point. And in fact I think the issue is not your >> contribution itself, but the future contribution from developers of RTEMS >> and Linux that are using GPL. > I think we have to be careful with the word "contribution". The ASF cannot > accept any contribution that is licensed and copyrighted by some other > entity. To "contribute" the code is to donate the code to the ASF without > retaining any claims to it. Then the code belongs to the ASF and can be > re-licensed as Apache 2.0 with the ASF copyright. > > What you are talking about has to be treated as third party code that resides > with the Apache NuttX code. It is not Apache NuttX code. >
