jaaron, Hen, Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Would it be possible for one of you to forward this to the legal-discuss mailing list? I believe one must be a committer of an ASF project to subscribe. Thanks!
Chris --- Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/6/07, J Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/6/07, Chris Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Scenario: > > > A project (Project A) is set up on Source Forge > by > > > individuals as the only legal entities. Project > A is > > > setup under the Apache License V2. What would > Project > > > A need to do beforehand to ensure that all code > > > committed to Project A's SVN is available for an > > > existing ASF project to incorporate into it's > code > > > base in the following scenarios: > > > > From a purely legal and policy standpoint, any AL2 > licensed work can > > be included in an ASF work. So all your > situations should be fine > > just by having the sf.net project use the Apache > License. The only > > tricky part is if a contribution is "significant" > and that's only > > because of policy not license restrictions. > > I don't agree. Any AL2 licensed work can be included > in an ASF > distribution, as a dependency. In terms of > committing a piece of work > that is not under our IP (and is not covered by a > CLA), the Apache > license doesn't make it a given. You would still > need to submit a > grant or be covered by a CLA, and you would have to > be responsible for > the IP of the work. (I think... :) ). > > Chris' scenario seems quite tricky, the most obvious > one I can think > of as a solution is to replicate the FSF structure > of having the > ownership be assigned to another party (ie: > himself). IANAL etc - but > I don't think the ASF CLA system gives us the > ability to grant that > work to someone else - ie: we couldn't do the > reverse of this and give > ASF work over to the 3rd party project. > > Probably a good question for legal-discuss (?). I'm > pretty sure I > don't grok all of the ramifications etc so hesitant > to say anything > too strong. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
