Yes, it's already in progress. No joke.

On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Greg Barton wrote:

> If you allege illegal actions, you'd better be prepared to take that up in a 
> court of law.  No joke.  If you think laws were broken, get yourself a lawyer 
> and pursue the matter in the proper venue. 
> 
> This is not the proper venue.
> 
> Now that you have alleged illegal behavior I will no longer discuss this with 
> you.
> 
> --- On Tue, 8/31/10, 山本 裕介 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: 山本 裕介 <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [rules-dev] [rules-users] copyright violation issue on Drools
> To: "Rules Dev List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 9:41 PM
> 
> At the time of submission, I was not aware that Red Hat is a company that 
> commits illegal actions.
> And now I'm "explicitly stating" that I do not wish to include my work to the 
> project.
> 
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Greg Barton wrote:
> 
>> See http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>> 
>> "5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise, any 
>> Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work by You to the 
>> Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of this License, without 
>> any additional terms or conditions. Notwithstanding the above, nothing 
>> herein shall supersede or modify the terms of any separate license agreement 
>> you may have executed with Licensor regarding such Contributions."
>> 
>> Did you, at the time of submission, have a separate agreement?  In writing?  
>> Signed by all parties?
>> 
>> GreG
>> 
>> On Aug 31, 2010, at 20:50, 山本 裕介 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>> At the time of your contributions to Drools and other projects you were a 
>>>> Red Hat employee. The Red Hat legal department has determined that it has 
>>>> the right to copy, modify and distribute your contributions under the 
>>>> Apache License version 2.0 and considers this matter closed. 
>>> 
>>> Richard didn't explain that. 
>>> I didn't use Red Hat time to fix those bugs, translate message resources. I 
>>> believe that "I am/was a Red Hat employee" doesn't matter. I'm not paid for 
>>> the task.
>>> 
>>> "At the time the code was contributed in good faith under the Apache 
>>> license, you cannot then decide at a later date to change your mind."
>>> My understanding is that people just do not want to undone their 
>>> contributions usually. That is how OSS works.
>>> Technically the copyright holder of translated message resources, program 
>>> codes is the originator.
>>> I agreed to distribute my work under the ASL, but I didn't tell that I 
>>> willingly give away the copyright to the project.
>>> Anybody who originates their work (i.e. the copyright holder) should be 
>>> able to decide the license at a later date.
>>> 
>>> Richard, any comment?
>>> 
>>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Michael Neale wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So is the reason that there is a dispute over another copyright holder? 
>>>> (ie these changes were copied in violation of that copyright in the first 
>>>> place) - or a case of changing-minds about rights to the commits of the 
>>>> original work? (if the latter then close the issue - nothing can or should 
>>>> be done - as it is a licencing issue then, not a copyright issue, and as 
>>>> Mark says the licence doesn't permit that revoking). 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Proctor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Yusuke,
>>>> At the time of your contributions to Drools and other projects you were a 
>>>> Red Hat employee. The Red Hat legal department has determined that it has 
>>>> the right to copy, modify and distribute your contributions under the 
>>>> Apache License version 2.0 and considers this matter closed. If you have 
>>>> any further need to discuss this please do so with Red Hat legal, - you 
>>>> have their contact details.
>>>> 
>>>> Even if you were not a Red Hat employee, which you were at the time, you 
>>>> cannot undo an OSS code contribution, that is not how OSS licensing works. 
>>>> At the time the code was contributed in good faith under the Apache 
>>>> license, you cannot then decide at a later date to change your mind. The 
>>>> OSS licenses, be it ASL or LGPL or GPL, are designed specifically to 
>>>> provide certainty in that area. Without this level of certainty end user 
>>>> OSS adoption would be a minefield as every time developers fall out, which 
>>>> happens often, one could demand all their code be removed and this would 
>>>> impact everyone who has invested time installing that software in 
>>>> production systems.
>>>> Mark
>>>> 
>>>> On 31/08/2010 17:41, 山本 裕介 wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have consulted RH legal dept. only to get no meaningful response.
>>>>> I guess Edson is the one who commit most of these files.
>>>>> The how and why they need to be uncommitted is attached to the Jira issue.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Yusuke
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 1:34 AM, Mauricio Salatino wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Yusuke, good question. I'm not sure where is the right place, but you 
>>>>>> are only asking to rollback your changes right?
>>>>>> who commit all your contributions to the jboss repo?
>>>>>> I also saw that you mention: "For several reasons, I decided to withdraw 
>>>>>> those contributions introduced from my spare time. "
>>>>>> can you mention those reasons? so we, as community can learn why you 
>>>>>> want to remove your contributions. I'm just curious.
>>>>>> Greetings.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:50 PM, 山本 裕介 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Where is the appropriate forum for copyright issues?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Greg Barton wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> > This is not the appropriate forum for copyrighgt issues.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > GreG
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:40, 山本 裕介 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > There's a copyright violation issue on Drools 5.1 release.
>>>>>> > Please remove the changes listed in the following issue.
>>>>>> > https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2660
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks,
>>>>>> > Yusuke
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