On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > back in my Oracle days I did some work in CWS swbookmarkfixes01 which would > be convenient not having to recreate. According to: > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > ownership of the CWS is now at ASF. So two simple questions: >
Where do you read that? I don't see that statement. I see Andrew saying, "We are trying to provide all of the Oracle owned content in the OOo repositories." "Trying" is not the same as an SGA. I'm trying to lose weight. But I can assure you my doctor will trust what the scale says more than my stated intentions. > - Is this (my) work in this CWS released under AL2 to the public already with > this? > - If not and I do the work to re-base this CWS against master, and have it > checked into an Apache SVN branch will the work then be immediately > available under the ALv2 license? > You say "(my) work". If it is indeed your IP, then you can do with it as you wish, right? You could make it ALv2 with or without checking it into SVN. But if it is not your IP, and your right to contribute the code is questionable, then checking it into SVN would just provoke someone to delete the code. In any case, the act of checking in the code does not give the committer any more rights to set a license on the code then they started with. Also, isn't this essentially the same question that was raised by Michael Meeks a couple of months ago? At that point I think the recommendation was for RedHat or SUSE or TDF to talk to Oracle about this, since they are the rights owner. -Rob > Best, > > Bjoern
