On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:12 AM Sönke Liebau <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just wanted to briefly point out, that the ASF also has a standardized > way for IP donations [1] [2] that we might have to incorporate into > our process. Most of the documentation refers to a "codebase" being brought > in, so I am not 100% sure that this applies to our content, but my thinking > is: it should. > I noticed that license agreements and grants need to be mailed to > secretary@apache, so potentially Craig can offer some additional insight > into the actual process when we have determined if it is relevant to us. > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ip-clearance-template.html I'm not sure that this is the right process for this project. I see some potential problems: * The incubator PMC has expertise in a different set of licenses and types of content than are likely to be applied here. * Donations to training are likely to be very frequent and small; unlike what the incubator usually gets. * I suspect the incubator is not currently actually checking most things that are sent to it via that process, and I don't want us to get a false sense of security via the process. At this point, I'm not offering an alternative. I'm just asking if anyone else also sees potential problems with that approach. Best Regards, Myrle
