On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I should think there is probably > broader commercial or legal reason for Oracle to hold on to the copyright > such as tax relief or just in case it *might* somehow become valuable.
Oracle offered to transfer the copyright, and I said that it was neither necessary nor required. What was required was a standard Software Grant. Once that was provided neither side has pursued it any further. As the Apache model is intentionally not based on Copyright Assignment, a grant of the copyright would quickly become irrelevant over time as people make contributions based on the terms specified in the Individual Contributor License Agreement and in the Apache License, Version 2.0 itself. - Sam Ruby -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
