Your history isn't really accurate. Years before Spark became an Apache project, the AMPlab and UC Berkeley placed the Spark code under a 3-clause BSD License and made the code publicly available. Later, a group of developers and Spark users from both inside and outside Berkeley brought Spark and that repository of code through the Apache incubation process to become a full Apache project. So, it is not really accurate to say that UC Berkeley donated Spark to the ASF.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:21 PM hxd <hxd...@qq.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As we know, Spark is one of the most famous projects for distributed > computing. It is donated by UC Berkeley to ASF initially, and currently a > lot of developers in the world are making contribution to the project. > > Because Apache 2.0 License requires licensing related patents to ASF if > needed, I want to make a survey about “how universities deal with the IP > clearance when donating to Apache”. We believe that it is helpful to let > more universities understand the process, and join in Apache more smoothly > in the future. > > Therefore, I want to know does UC Berkeley have related patents before > the university contributed source codes to Apache? If there is, then how > the university dealt with them? And what documents the university provided > to Apache, just SGA? > > Thanks very much! > > Best, > Xiangdong > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > >
