Right! Apache doesn't want any copyrights. It just wants to sublicense and create derivative works.
More information (and the ICLA) are located here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 21:17, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's my sense of how they are different things: > > The ICLA is not a copyright assignment of any kind. It is only a license and > your affirmation that you have the right to grant it. > > The OCA non-exclusively transfers a property right. The license doesn't work > that way. My understanding is that differences include what can be > sold/transferred and who can sue someone for infringement. > > With regard to copyright, the Apache ICLA is very much like the license that > the terms of use for the openoffice.org site assert that you are providing in > making contributions on the site (without having entered into any OCA). That > is not a copyright assignment either. (Copyright assignments *must* be made > in writing in the United States.) > > The ICLA also stipulates a grant of Patent License. (So does the OCA. Not a > transfer, a license.) > > The ICLA also applies to contributions other than software. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friedrich Strohmaier [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 17:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing? > > Hi Greg, *, > > sorry, forgot to post links.. > > Friedrich Strohmaier schrieb: > >> I pull this in a new thread, as it is basic for understanding the >> difference between OCA and ICLA. > >> Greg Stein schrieb: > >> [..] > >>> Let's also not forget that neither TDF nor the ASF require copyright >>> assignment. The copyright remains with the contributor. > >> Same thing with OCA. You don't/didn't "sell" your copy right instead >> it was shared. > > see here: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Joint_Copyright_Assignment > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Oracle_Contributor_Agreement > http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#usinglicenses > http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf > > [..] > > sorry for avoidable noise.. > > Gruß/regards > -- > Friedrich > Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ > LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images > > > -- > 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
