Hi Guillaume, On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Guillaume Bailleul <[email protected]> wrote: > So today, we are ready to donate it and let it evolve with PDFBox. There is > work to do on the code to make it fitting Apache rule. Let us know if this > donation have its place in PDFBox and if there are some hands (and brains) > to help us.
The consensus seems to be that we'd like to accept PaDaF as a part of PDFBox and welcome you to join us in continuing its development here. Since PaDaF has been developed outside Apache, we'll need to follow the IP clearance process [1,2] to make sure all the legal bits are in order. Here's a rough outline of how we could proceed with this: a) You file a new feature request [3] for this and attach the latest PaDaF sources there. b) You submit a Software Grant [4] for the PaDaF sources. c) You submit Individual Contributor License Agreements (ICLA) [5] for anyone who has been working on the PaDaF sources and wants to continue doing so within Apache. d) If your work on PaDaF/PDFBox is a part of your work, your employer should also submit a Corporate Contributor License Agreement (CCLA) [6]. Note that the software grant from step b) can be combined with the CCLA (see schedule B). e) We review the submission and vote on accepting it. f) Assuming the vote passes, we'll fill in the IP clearance form [2] and submit it to the Apache Incubator for review and for the record g) Once everything is clear, we import the PaDaF sources to PDFBox and set up your committer accounts. I'd expect the whole process to take about one or two weeks. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :-) [1] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html [2] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ip-clearance-template.html [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX [4] http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt [5] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt [6] http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt BR, Jukka Zitting
