On 8/22/2012 4:10 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Hello, > > we have green light now from the Universities of Colorado and Darmstadt. Great! > > I have prepared a ZIP of the current trunk sources and the wiki contents at > > > http://code.google.com/p/uimafit/downloads/detail?name=uimaFIT-grant-staging-rev-919.zip > > SHA1: 010d2f2880cd502b08a6e2659041aa025689cd20 > > Please have a look if this is an acceptable format to contribute uimaFIT as a > kind of "patch". The file is also up for review by the uimaFIT developers.
Ok, we'll take a look. > If this format is ok, we would proceed setting up two Software Grant > Agreement, one for Colorado, one for Darmstadt, in which > the file name and the SHA1 sum would be listed under the section "Exhibit A". > These would be signed by representatives of the > two institutions, be scanned and e-mailed (to whom, I do not know yet). page http://www.apache.org/licenses/ says "Grants may be submitted by traditional postal mail, fax, or by emailing a scan of the signed copy to secretary@. You can also edit the text document, create a detached gpg signature, and send both the document and the detached signature via email to secretary. The "secretary" is shorthand for [email protected], I believe :-) > Most contributors have been affiliated with either of these two institutions > when they were working on uimaFIT. One of the uimaFIT core developers > (Steven) has continued contributing as private persons after leaving the > respective institution. One contributor mentioned in the source code (Fabio) > has affirmed by mail that there is no objection against a grant and claims no > IP. Please advice if we need a separate SGA signed by the two uimaFIT > contributors who have contributed on the project partly or completely as a > private person. We need some documentation, either an SGA, or an ICLA (if the contribution is minor), signed by all people who are part of this contribution. The SGA is for both individuals and corporations. -Marshall > > Best, > > -- Richard >
