Fair enough but it would be procedural not legal. Who would sign said SGA? LI or representatives of the GH project?
-- Kevin A. McGrail Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > If Dr. Elephant *becomes* an Apache project, it needs a SGA. This is part > of the incubation process, although as Bertrand notes, it's good to know > ahead of time whether all of the current owners of the code are willing to > grant an explicit license to Apache. > > Please see http://www.apache.org/licenses/#provenance for details. > > If Dr. Elephant is only *used* as a dependency by an Apache project, no > SGA is needed. > > Craig > > > On Mar 7, 2018, at 5:51 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > I do not believe an SGA is needed as Dr. Elephant is licensed under ASF. > > https://github.com/linkedin/dr-elephant/blob/master/LICENSE > > > > Regards, > > KAM > > > > -- > > Kevin A. McGrail > > Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation > > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 > > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 6:59 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > > bdelacre...@codeconsult.ch> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:08 AM, Carl Steinbach <c...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> = Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan = > >>> ...The Dr. Elephant source code is already licensed under > >>> Apache License Version 2.0. Going forward, we will continue to have > >>> all the contributions licensed directly to the Apache Software > >>> Foundation through our signed Individual Contributor License > >>> Agreements for all of the committers on the project.... > >> > >> Note that whoever owns the code (LinkedIn IIUC) will have to submit a > >> Software Grant to donate it to the ASF: > >> > >> https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt > >> > >> I think it's prudent to verify that the owners of the code are ready > >> to sign and submit that document, and mention that in the above > >> section, before entering incubation. > >> > >> -Bertrand > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > Craig L Russell > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
