There is absolutely no requirement to file an iCLA with the Apache Software Foundation in order to use the Apache License v2.0. The iCLA is for contributors to Apache projects. It says so right in the part quoted below. Many projects not carried out as Apache projects use the license. (Compare with using the GPL versus contributing to a Gnu project, the latter generally requiring a license to FSF.)
The license itself suggests all that is needed to apply it to your own work. The ODF Authors are certainly free to do so without any permission or agreement with the ASF. See <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt> and its Appendix. It is also the case that, from the perspective of an Apache project that might have some keen interest in this material ( [;<), non-Apache sources of ALv2-licensed material are treated as 3rd party sources. It just happens that the licenses are highly compatible [;<). The CC-By-Attribution (but not Share-Alike) is also pretty compatible. Also, independently licensing under ALv2 is *not* the same as contributing it to Apache. (I've registered an iCLA with ASF and I'm an Apache committer, but my independent projects that I'm licensing under ALv2 are not contributions to any Apache project.) - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Thurgood [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 06:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents Le 25/11/11 20:01, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, > The existing user guides are licensed the same as the OOo guides they were > derived from, and the templates include this licensing information on the > Copyright page (GPL and CC-BY dual license). > > NEW documents, however, could be licensed differently. I propose that new > docs be dual licensed CC-BY-SA (preferred by LibreOffice) and Apache (so our > work can be reused by Apache OpenOffice and other products). The AL2 would require all documentation contributors to sign a contributor license agreement : http://www.apache.org/licenses/ Contributor License Agreements The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) [ PDF form ]. The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the ASF and thereby allow us to defend the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given commit rights to an ASF project. There are more than subtle differences between the AL2 and CC-BY-SA. Whilst I may not be fully satisfied with the CC-BY-SA license, it appeals to me far more than AL2. Personally, I have no such intention of signing an agreement of the AL2 type, or anything like it again (if I can possibly avoid it), I'm afraid it reminds me too much of the jumps and hoops you had to go through with Sun. So, -1 for me, I'm afraid. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
