On 8/23/2012 12:03 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Am 23.08.2012 um 17:52 schrieb Marshall Schor: > >> 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. > Contributors are: > > University of Colorado: > - Philip Ogren > - Steven Bethard > - Chris Roeder (minor) > - Philipp Wetzler (minor) > > Technische UniversitŠät Darmstadt: > - Richard Eckart de Castilho > - Niklas Jakob (minor) > - Shuo Yang (minor) > - Torsten Zesch (minor) > > External/Private: > - Fabio Mancinelli (minor) > - Steven Bethard > > I assume(d) that the SGA by University of Colorado and Technische > UniversitäŠt Darmstadt will cover the corresponding people, as they were > under contract by the respective institutions at the relevant time. Yes. > If this is correct, then an additional ICLA would be required for Steven for > his private contributions and for Fabio. Yes. > Or do we need ICLAs for all minor contributors and SGAs for all major > contributors and their respective institutions? Major contributors who were employed by companies who signed the SGA would be covered by that; no separate SGA from them is needed, since their work is "owned" by their companies (who in turn are signing the SGAs). >
In addition to these, Apache needs an ICLA for anybody who will be contributing on an ongoing basis (beyond very minor fixes). Finally, anyone signing an ICLA who works for a company that may claim their work should, in addition, get their company to sign an CCLA that says it's OK (from the company's point of view) for the individual to contribute to the Apache project under the ICLA. This covers on-going contributions which may be "owned" by the company the individual works for, as part of that company's employment agreement with the individual. A CCLA is an agreement signed by the company involved. See the Corporate CLA (CCLA) documentation, here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/ > And is it ok if there are multiple SGA documents on the same file/hash, each > by one party, or does it have to be one single SGA document with signatures > from all parties (which may be logistically quite inconvenient). This is OK. -Marshall > > Best, > > -- Richard >
