On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Kasper Sørensen wrote: > Human Inference confirms to be entitled to transfer the MetaModel to the > Apache Foundation. > > One potentially stupid question though: What is an SGA? Our legal dept. > was not aware at least :-)
Software Grant Agreement [1]. Essentially, the legal framework for granting shared copyright to the ASF for the donated code. [1]:http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kasper Sørensen [mailto:kasper.soren...@humaninference.com] > Sent: 30. maj 2013 21:34 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] MetaModel for the Apache Incubator > > We'll make sure the legal implifications are in place. As I am not our > legal representative I would really try not to make an official statement > on the matter, but I suspect it will not be an issue and since the decision > to donate the project to Apache has gone through our management team, these > topics are covered from our legal side as well. I will push back into the > organization to get a more formal statement for the incubation of course. > > Kasper > ________________________________________ > From: Matt Franklin [m.ben.frank...@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 May 2013 16:33 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] MetaModel for the Apache Incubator > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi Arvind, > > > > For concern 1 I will let the lead engineer Kasper to answer. I believe > > if the contributors already signed copyright agreement to Human > > Inference then it should be fine since it means all code contributions > > belong to Human Inference which will then be transferred to ASF. > > > > Someone might want to help clarifying this if I am mistaken. > > > > As long as Human Inference holds the copyright for ALL code, I am pretty > sure this is fine. A single SGA from Human Inference should suffice. > > > > > > As for concern 2, I have scanned the master pom.xml's > > dependencyManagement section and looks like all dependencies are > > Apache 2.0 friendly. Again, Kasper could help verify if this is the case. > > > > > > - Henry > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Arvind Prabhakar <arv...@apache.org > > >wrote: > > > > > Henry, > > > > > > Thank you for submitting this proposal. I am very glad to be a > > > mentor for this project and look forward to working with you and the > > > broader community. I have a couple of comments with regards to the > > > stated > > proposal > > > - > > > > > > First - as noted in the proposal MetaModel has been an open source > > project > > > with contributions coming from various corners of the world. Given > > > this development model, do the individual contributors hold > > > copyright over > > their > > > contributed code? If so, you will likely need their consent in order > > > to provide this code to the Incubator for the purposes of starting > > > this project. > > > > > > Second - I noticed that the proposal calls out the LGPL dependency > > > that will be removed before sourcing the initial drop. Along the > > > same lines, I urge you to go through the the legal FAQ [1] to make > > > sure that there are > > no > > > other dependencies that merit removal or special handling. > > > > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > > > > > > Regards, > > > Arvind Prabhakar > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Henry Saputra > > > <henry.sapu...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Dear ASF members, > > > > > > > > We would like to propose MetaModel for the incubator. > > > > > > > > Matt Franklin will be the Champion for this project and the > > > > proposal > > > draft > > > > is available at: > > > > > > > > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MetaModelProposal > > > > > > > > Looking forward to all of your suggestions and feedback. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Henry Saputra > > > > > -- Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse typos or brevity.
