Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-25 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > On a separate note, I wish there was a fast-track for these kind of > projects which can start internally in Apache without too much of a hassle. Given the LICENSE currently has issue do you think this project could go straight to TLP? Thanks, Justin --

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-24 Thread Niclas Hedhman
All, the Board approved Apache Zest (now Polygene) to go straight to TLP about 2 years ago. Part of the decision was the question; "What benefit will incubation have for the community?", and since we had exclusively Apache members on the initial project, operated with an ASF mindset before coming t

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-24 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/24/17, 4:40 PM, "Enis Söztutar" wrote: > >On a separate note, I wish there was a fast-track for these kind of >projects which can start internally in Apache without too much of a >hassle. Check the archives for "Straight to TLP" discussions. I thought it was possible these days. -Alex

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-24 Thread Enis Söztutar
> > > I'm pretty sure I brought this up on legal-discuss before. Its not > incorrect, but they are openly giving access to the code to the ASF. The > ASF can choose to ignore that license if they want. > All of the developers are coming from the Apache community (mainly Hadoop and related), so t

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread John D. Ament
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:43 PM Jitendra Pandey wrote: > A software grant document > (https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt) from Hortonworks has > already been filed with secret...@apache.org, and has been ack-ed. > > Then other than verifying new license headers are in place, as ne

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread Jitendra Pandey
A software grant document (https://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt) from Hortonworks has already been filed with secret...@apache.org, and has been ack-ed. On 2/21/17, 5:28 PM, "John D. Ament" wrote: >Please note that IP Clearance is not for new projects, it is for code >donations.

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread John D. Ament
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:33 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Even going as far back as the first commit, it was licensed to the > Apache Software Foundation > > Perhaps a silly question. I expected the initial commit to be ALv2 but not > licensed to the ASF. Can you license something to the A

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Even going as far back as the first commit, it was licensed to the Apache > Software Foundation Perhaps a silly question. I expected the initial commit to be ALv2 but not licensed to the ASF. Can you license something to the ASF without permission? Thanks, Justin

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread John D. Ament
Please note that IP Clearance is not for new projects, it is for code donations. In this case, we would expect an SGA from Hortonworks, or nothing since the project is already Apache licensed. Even going as far back as the first commit, it was licensed to the Apache Software Foundation - https://

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Look fine to me, no binary files, source code has headers. BTW your LICENSE is referring to dependancies (including a EPL license one) rather than what is bundled inside the repo (which strangely are not mentioned), but that’s not an IP clearance issue. Thanks, Justin -

[IP CLEARANCE] Software grant for Ratis (incubating)

2017-02-21 Thread Jitendra Pandey
Please check the ip-clearance form for a software grant for Ratis source to the ASF by Hortonworks Inc. http://incubator.staging.apache.org/ip-clearance/ratis.html Thanks jitendra