Le 26/03/15 15:11, Upayavira a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015, at 01:31 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: >> I think we are going a bit too far here. >> >> Groovy has been under the AL 2.0 license since it moves from BSD (back >> in 2003). AL 2.0 says : >> >> " Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor >> hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, >> royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare >> Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and >> distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form." >> >> My understanding is that any groovy contributor, including the 5 initial >> commiters, can grant the existing code base to The ASF, per the AL 2.0 >> license. > My IANAL take: > > Almost, but not quite :-) No granting is required. The AL2.0 is a > license that allows the ASF to do with it what it wants to do. > > Only the owner of the code can “grant” additional privileges. As we’ve > noted, that’s an unclear thing. No-one has the right to speak on behalf > of the many contributors to the original codebase without asking their > permission first. Fortunately, we don’t need to do that :-) We can just > import the code.
That's my understanding too. But a grant is required for incubation... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
