Hi
May I ask several question about donating projects to Apache? Any help are appreciated. Thanks in advance. As we all know, the Apache is the most important open source community, there are so many great projects such as Tomcat, Hadoop, Hbase, Zookeeper etc. It is proud of joining these great projects. We also want to donate some of our good open source projects to ASF, but we are a litter worry about the legal issue. I don’t know what’s the impact of intelligent Properties after donation, Could anyone give me some guideline or several documents ? Thanks (1) Trademark Will the project trademark belong to ASF or still be our company’s after donation? Can we still use the old project trademark. (2) Patent We have own several patent on these open source projects, if we donate these project, what’s the patent going on. Does we give up all patent claim? (3) Agreement Which agreements should we sign? Right now, we need sign <http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt> Corporate CLA and <http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt> Software Grant Agreement (SGA). Is there any other agreement should we sign? (4) Who own the source code? Does the code belong to ASF or still be our company? Thanks in advance. Longda
