Re: I think individuals need SGAs

2010-12-02 Thread Leo Simons
Hey hey, I definitely understand the reasoning. Hmm. I think the way to look at it is, it depends, but do whatever is needed to allow apache liberal rights to sublicense all the IP to it's users. The second way to look at it is that logic and legal stuff are not always as closely connected as

Re: I think individuals need SGAs

2010-12-02 Thread Benson Margulies
I don't even know which mailing list gets commit notifies of infra web site edits. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Craig L Russell craig.russ...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Benson, I didn't see your edit. I might not be subscribed to the right list (yet). You are right. A pre-existing code base is

Re: I think individuals need SGAs

2010-12-02 Thread Benson Margulies
To my pleasant surprise, Sam replied on legal-discuss that an icla is just fine -- though it's better if the person signing it actually reads it first. I plan to make some more tweaks to the web site to places that seem to say the opposite. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Benson Margulies

I think individuals need SGAs

2010-12-01 Thread Benson Margulies
I've been thinking about Leo's email of the other day, and I think that my edit to the mentor page is not right and some guidance I've delivered to podlings is not right. I'd like to float my logic here and see how it gets shot at. As Leo pointed out, the CCLA has a specific section for granting

Re: I think individuals need SGAs

2010-12-01 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Benson, I didn't see your edit. I might not be subscribed to the right list (yet). You are right. A pre-existing code base is not covered by an ICLA. A grant is needed. Craig On Dec 1, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: I've been thinking about Leo's email of the other day,