Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 7:38 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Not quite; "receiving PMC is responsible for managing the IP Clearance
>> fast track
>> process through the incubator."
>
> But how is there IP clearance in terms of someone with a CLA on record
> who has rights to commit? Shouldn't every piece of code by every
> committer on every project have to go through IP Clearance then?
It's mostly a question of the size of the contribution, and maybe
whether it is something more or less independent or just a change
to an existing codebase.
I've seen someone argue that a piece of AL-licensed software that
was developed by an Apache committer outside of the ASF should
not require a software grant. But current rules of the Incubator
say that it does, and I see Labs as a similar thing.
> Contributing to Labs is not the same as a software grant. A Software
> Grant implies the code lives out in the wild somewhere else (Source
> Forge, etc.), AIUI.
Doesn't have to be in the wild, it may also be something that
has been developed in-house or at-home somewhere. A software
grant implies that the software was not developed "within"
an existing ("regular") Apache project as part of the routine
operation of that project. Given the special ("non-regular")
status of the Labs, I'd say that code developed here matches
that description.
cheers,
Roland
> Labs implies "committer X wants a place to scratch
> an itch on something new without going through all the formalities of
> project setup"
>
> -Grant
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