Hello Tommaso
The holders of the distribution rights should be (the last item lists
the supervision institution of our laboratory):
<li>
<em>Nicolas Hernandez</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>Fabien Poulard</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>Matthieu Vernier</em>
</li>
<li>
<em>Université de Nantes, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, CNRS</em>
</li>
I saw that your patch integrates svn modifications, so I let you add
manually the modifications.
Waiting for the next step...
Regards
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Tommaso Teofili
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> so the copyright holder signing a SGA transfers distribution rights to ASF.
>> Jukka and others, please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> You're right, though using "grants" instead of "transfers" would be
> slightly more accurate.
>
> The exact wording of clause 1 in the software grant [1] spells this
> out in more detail:
>
> 1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Licensor
> hereby grants to the Foundation:
>
> a) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable
> copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of,
> publicly display, publicly perform, distribute and sublicense,
> internally and externally, the Software and such derivative
> works, in source code and object code form; and,
>
> b) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable
> patent license under Licensed Patents to make, use, sell,
> offer to sell, import and otherwise transfer the Software
> in source code and object code form. "Licensed Patents" mean
> patent claims owned by Licensor which are necessarily
> infringed by the use or sale of the Software alone.
>
> What this means in practice is that the ASF (in this case the Apache
> UIMA project) can "sublicense" the material under ALv2 and distribute
> it to the public.
>
> And regarding any downstream consumers who'd want to further use this
> material, clause 2 of the ALv2 grants them similar rights to
> sublicense and distribute it as part of their own products or other
> distributions:
>
> 2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of
> this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual,
> worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
> copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of,
> publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the
> Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.
>
> (Note the "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License" in
> both cases. I'm quoting just the essential bits of the licenses here,
> but you'll need to read them entirely for all the details.)
>
> So, to summarize, once the original copyright holder submits the
> software grant [1] and we take this through the IP clearance process
> [3], Apache UIMA will release the material for everyone to use under
> the ALv2 [2].
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt
> [2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
> [3] http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
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