Jason Wies wrote: > I am concerned that the definition of Contributors in Section 3 > applies to two different roles. When a work is submitted to the > Licensor, there is an actual contributor, the person who submitted the > code to the mailing list/source control system/etc., and there is the > person who holds the copyright on the code that the contributor > submitted. These are not the same people if the person submitting the > work got the code from another program or from an open forum.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to require that Contributors represent and warrant they have the copyright to their contribution or at least the right to license it as required by the Apache license. Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/
