On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 August 2011 16:55, Eike Rathke <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sunday, 2011-08-07 11:27:26 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > > ... > >>> 1) How do we ensure that contributions are made in a way that is >>> consistent with the rights we need to even host the contributed >>> content. >> >> Ensure that contributions are made under a proper license by having >> a statement at a prominent place when editing a page. Have a bot running >> that searches for terms like license and copyright and such and review >> those pages, reject/undo edits if necessary. > > The ASF is extremely averse with respect to IP management. That's why
Do you mean "risk averse" ? Or are they averse in general, like some lawyers I know ;-) > companies of all shapes and sizes are comfortable using Apache project > outputs. I'm not part of the legal team. If the community wants to > move towards this kind of model it will need to be run past the legal > team. As I understand it this is not currently accepted practice (but > I may be wrong and if Sam is reading he will correct me). > > Ross >
