Hi, > > I will send in my signed SCA the next couple of days, and at the same > > time find out who is the actual copyright owner (me, or aicas - my > > employer -, aicas already signed the SCA even). The remaining issue is > > that the copyright is assigned to the FSF. I have hoped that you would > > review my code before I start the copyright grantback dance for that > > code. I am currently discussing this issue with Tom Marble and Mark > > Wielaard. > > What is the copyright grantback dance? If you wrote the code what > possible issue can there be? No one should be able to take away > your rights to your code. > Frankly a lot of this is still learning for us.
When I wrote this code for GNU Classpath, I assigned copyright to the FSF, just like OpenJDK contributions are copyright-assigned to Sun. With the difference that the SCA is automatically granting the contributor all rights to the code, while with the FSF CA I need to go through a copyright grantback procedure, in order to make sure that all the code I 'want back' was originally written by myself. > We've had less info internally on this contribution > process etc etc than has been communicated externally. > > And when legal etc say we can only look at contributions made under > an SCA, we pretty much have to do what they say. Perhaps > there are other rules which allow it but I don't know that, > and as an individual engineer I don't want to be making calls myself. > I'd probably get me or Sun in trouble if I did. I understand this very much. > >> It is also unfortunate that you do not have access to our > >> code review system - although this is relatively easy > >> to fix - we can include you as a reviewer in relevant > >> code changes (the system is email and web-based). > > > The rush (it was a close thing even if that's not apparent) > to get the source launched for JavaOne meant that we are nowhere > near on the infrastructure to support it etc. This is understood too. No worries :-) Kind regards, Roman -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Roman Kennke, Software Engineer, http://kennke.org aicas Allerton Interworks Computer Automated Systems GmbH Haid-und-Neu-Straße 18 * D-76131 Karlsruhe * Germany http://www.aicas.com * Tel: +49-721-663 968-0 USt-Id: DE216375633, Handelsregister HRB 109481, AG Karlsruhe Geschäftsführer: Dr. James J. Hunt
