HI Deron, Sorry I missed this email. Here is the link to ASF policy about code contribution: http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/legal.html
For big code contrib such as R4ML need to submit Software Grant to ASF via http://apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt Once approved then could send PR to merge the change. - Henry On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Deron Eriksson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luciano and Henry, > > Currently there is a discussion regarding possibly integrating code from > the R4ML project (https://github.com/SparkTC/r4ml) into SystemML. R4ML is > an Apache-licensed open-source project and IBM owns the copyright ( > https://github.com/SparkTC/r4ml/blob/master/R4ML/R/R4ML.R). Looking at > the commit logs, I believe all contributors to R4ML are also IBM employees > at the time of their contributions (someone please correct me if I am > wrong). > > If the R4ML code is integrated into SystemML, what is the ASF procedure > for transferring the copyrights from IBM to ASF? Is any formal paperwork > needed? Would the IBM copyright notice lines simply be removed from all > relevant files? > > Thanks > Deron > >
