+1 with a minor addendum. Smallish contributions do not constitute own Intellectual Property Rights if they do not pass the bar for the 'threshold of originality'. Of course this bar is a grey area. But it's afaict established sense that small bugfixes, and minor contributions (no whole feature) does not pass this bar.
So in practice you only need the written ACK from people who contributed a more impacting feature or enhancement. Example: Fixing a spelling error or clarifying an existing sententence does now constitute originary IP. Adding a whole page of documentation surely does. And inbetween is a grey area. LieGrue, strub > Am 19.09.2018 um 03:09 schrieb Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com>: > > Hi Mick, > > tldr; with my Incubator PMC hat on, "all that needs to be done" is to > establish that all of the copyright owners sign either a Software Grant or an > ICLA. > > In order to establish that Apache has the rights to the code base, every line > of code needs to have its provenance researched. > > Looking at the proposal https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZipkinProposal it > seems like most of the code is in the github repository > https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin . Is there any code coming from another > source? Was the original code from Twitter granted to OpenZipkin? Is there > any documentation of that copyright transfer? Does Twitter retain any rights? > > The capitalization of the "Initial Source" section is a bit strange. But can > we assume that the only committers to the project are listed at > https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/graphs/contributors ? > > The proposal also says that "All source code is copyrighted to 'The > OpenZipkin Authors', to which the existing core community(members list in > Initial Committers) has the rights to re-assign to the ASF. " > > It looks like there were many people who contributed a few lines of code. Did > they sign anything like a Contributor Agreement that grants their copyright > to The OpenZipkin Authors? > > Craig > >> On Sep 18, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> >> It's come up that the migration of the github Zipkin repositories to ASF >> requires either a signed SGA or a sign-off from the Secretary. Chris raised >> this on `INFRA-16989 – Zipkin incubator project request for the GitHub >> repositories moving service`. >> >> I was under the impression that if the Copyright was already held by the >> community, it is held by 'The OpenZipkin Authors', that the ICLA from all >> those authors would suffice and a SGA not be required. And it's news to me >> that this would also require a sign-off from the ASF Secretary. >> >> What's the correct process here? who can help? should I forward the question >> to the Secretary? >> >> regards, >> Mick >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 <mailto:c...@apache.org> http://db.apache.org/jdo > <http://db.apache.org/jdo> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
