Re: OpenNLP IP clearance question

2011-09-14 Thread Benson Margulies
You probably don't need BOTH an SGA or a CCLA. Just one. A CCLA allows future contributions. The SGA would just cover this one thing. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > On 9/14/11 9:18 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: >> >> He worked on it "during his day job" and nobody legally r

Re: OpenNLP IP clearance question

2011-09-14 Thread Jörn Kottmann
On 9/14/11 9:18 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: He worked on it "during his day job" and nobody legally representing the company(?) did "sign a software grant" or indicate agreement with the contribution otherwise, correct? Can there be any other answer to your question than no? Thanks for you answ

Re: OpenNLP IP clearance question

2011-09-14 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Am 13.09.2011 21:38, schrieb Jörn Kottmann: > The contributor told me that he worked on it also during his day job and cannot reach > his VP to sign a software grant and CCLA from him. Therefore he decided to proceed as an individual > and he did send an ICLA and SGA to the secretary. > > Can we no

OpenNLP IP clearance question

2011-09-13 Thread Jörn Kottmann
Hi all, the OpenNLP project would like to accept a contribution of a syntactic generalization component. The contributor told me that he worked on it also during his day job and cannot reach his VP to sign a software grant and CCLA from him. Therefore he decided to proceed as an individual an

Re: IP Clearance question

2010-02-09 Thread Brett Porter
On 10/02/2010, at 8:49 AM, Brian Fox wrote: > Question on Step 3: > A software grant must be provided to the ASF. This grant can either be > done by the ASF Corporate CLA (via Schedule B) or the traditional > License Agreement. Acceptable methods of sending the grant to the ASF > includes: > snai

Re: IP Clearance Question

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Fox
So as I understand it, the old copyright can exist in the NOTICES file and that's ok in conjunction with the standard Apache license headers & copyright? On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> I think this will be

IP Clearance question

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Fox
Question on Step 3: A software grant must be provided to the ASF. This grant can either be done by the ASF Corporate CLA (via Schedule B) or the traditional License Agreement. Acceptable methods of sending the grant to the ASF includes: snail-mail to the ASF office and/or ASF officer FAXing to the

Re: IP Clearance Question

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > I think this will be promoted now, after the recent license header > issues in another podling... +1 once i have a minute, i planned to drawing up additional policy - robert ---

Re: IP Clearance Question

2010-02-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
I think this will be promoted now, after the recent license header issues in another podling... On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > The IP Clearance form says: > >        Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been > updated to reflect the new ASF co

Re: IP Clearance Question

2010-02-01 Thread Antonio Petrelli
2010/2/1 Grant Ingersoll : > What exactly is the "new ASF copyright"?  Is it our standard license header? The header and, eventually, update the NOTICE file with third party attribution. >  Is it really a requirement of a grant before it's even committed?  Can't > this be something done during c

IP Clearance Question

2010-02-01 Thread Grant Ingersoll
The IP Clearance form says: Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. What exactly is the "new ASF copyright"? Is it our standard license header? Is it really a requirement of a grant before it's even committed? Can'

Re: IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 7/6/09 5:49 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote: Follow up question, I assume our vote to accept the contribution is still acceptable as well as the software grant from Paremus. So, the only necessary action is to have Paremus submit a n

Re: IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote: > Follow up question, I assume our vote to accept the contribution is still > acceptable as well as the software grant from Paremus. So, the only > necessary action is to have Paremus submit a new, Apache compatible archive. > Is that correct?

Re: IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
Follow up question, I assume our vote to accept the contribution is still acceptable as well as the software grant from Paremus. So, the only necessary action is to have Paremus submit a new, Apache compatible archive. Is that correct? -> richard On 7/6/09 12:52 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote: Ok

Re: IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
Ok, thanks. -> richard On 7/6/09 12:50 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Richard S. Hall wrote: Hello, I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix. The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version o

Re: IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Richard S. Hall wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix. > > The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which > is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by > Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor

IP clearance question

2009-07-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
Hello, I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix. The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor classes depend on this JAR and i