On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Brian Minchau wrote:
My understanding is that Sun is signing a CCLA for their contribution of
JAXP 1.3.
yes. it's really a software grant, in effect.
I presume that like any code, the JAXP 1.3 code will have bugs, and will
develop over time, and will need fixes by someone. In the short term that
would most likely be Sun employees. As a Xalan PMC member it is my
responsibility to verify the pedigree of contributions before accepting
changes into the code base.
Are individual people listed in the CCLA that Sun is signing?
No.
If so, then
how can I find out who is listed, so that I can feel more confident about
accepting further contributions. Looking at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt I don't think that
individuals are listed.
yes, there's a bit of a mess there (need to fix the site). Sun signed the same CCLA that IBM signed for Derby, which is a CCLA and simultaneous grant. So they are using it for the grant part.
Also, in the past there seems to be some code that was contributed to
Apache by Sun employees who were committers, but who have never signed a
CLA. I think that at that time CCLAs did not exist. So I find the phrase in
the CCLA most interesting:
"Your "Contributions" means all of your past, present and future
contributions ..."
From reading that CCLA form it looks like all past, present and futurecontributions of all Sun employees have their licensing rights given to the
ASF, unless the contributions were donated with "Not a contribution" or
some other conspicuous, but similar phrase. If this is true then I feel
better about past contributions by people who were Sun employees at that
time, and who have never signed a CLA.
There are no people listed. I'll be happy to fax you a copy if that helps. IBM legal has the document - it's the same that they used for Derby and the recent JSR-105 contribution.
geir
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Excellent news! Thank to Sun folk and Geir for picking up the ball on this one.
Note: once the papers are in the Hallowed Halls, I presume that Neeraj
will get some consensus from xml-commons, xalan-dev, and xerces-j-dev as
to how to actually check this in? I'm presuming you have someone with
commit access to xml-commons, which is the pre-existing home for JAXP.
(Although incubator should check the legal issues, I don't think the
code needs to checkin thru there).
But I know Xerces and Xalan may have specific dependencies on xml-commons code, so we probably need to branch to allow current versions to work as-is and let them plan new versions with 1.3 support.
- Shane
Neeraj Bajaj wrote:xml-common, xerces & xalan communities,
I have learnt that legal issues regarding donation has been resolved and
latest version of CCLA has been signed.
So would like to make the actual code grant of JAXP 1.3 APIs +
implementation ASAP. I will start the preparation
today and will be back with actual code grant with in 2 days.
Best Regards,
- Neeraj
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