Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-27 Thread Andy Seaborne
Podling commons-rdf fits that description. It started at GitHub in the knowledge that ASF was a possible route; ALv2 from the start. (We started at GH because there are people who would join discussions more freely on GH.) It so happens, the contributors are all ASF committers. With advice

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread James Carman
Let's continue here. It seems there is some confusion around this particular subject, because I don't know that we really reached a point where we said this is what we're SUPPOSED to do in this situation with TinkerPop. We just did what we thought was best at the time. It would be good to have

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Matt Franklin
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:07 AM Guillaume Laforge glafo...@gmail.com wrote: So ultimately, what do we do? Do I (current Groovy project lead, thus project representative) need to sign something on behalf of the Groovy community or something like that? Or we just skip this step altogether since

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Guillaume Laforge
We've only seen positive messages from the community at large about the move, all supporting and praising the decision, in various forms, whether on our mailing-lists, or twitter, etc. So the community is already aware of it and supports this move. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Martijn

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Emmanuel Lécharny
I think we are going a bit too far here. Groovy has been under the AL 2.0 license since it moves from BSD (back in 2003). AL 2.0 says : Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free,

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Guillaume Laforge
So ultimately, what do we do? Do I (current Groovy project lead, thus project representative) need to sign something on behalf of the Groovy community or something like that? Or we just skip this step altogether since that's the community's intention as a whole? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:59 PM,

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:58 PM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: ...It would be good to have at least some codified guidelines somewhere on a wiki page or something that will help newly-incubating projects in similar situations My view is that -All committers need an

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Benson Margulies
If a single legal entity has the copyright, the entity makes a grant. If the code was built by a large community under the apache license, there's no one to make a grant. 'The community' expressing its desire to move to Apache is enough. This is an edge case of the principle that we only accept

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: My view is that -All committers need an iCLA I think that we can agree upon and nobody is refuting that. -Software that comes from outside the ASF needs to come with a software grant This is the sticking

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread John D. Ament
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:59 AM James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: Let's continue here. It seems there is some confusion around this particular subject, because I don't know that we really reached a point where we said this is what we're SUPPOSED to do in this situation with

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Cédric Champeau
In the case of groovy, does Pivotal own it or does someone else own it? Nobody owns it. If I look at https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/master/NOTICE it indicates that an entity known as The Groovy community owns it, in which case the SGA should probably come from them, no? Or is

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Would the discussion on the dev@groovy list be enough 'evidence' for the intent of the community to move to Apache? Then it would possible be sufficient to archive those messages for posterity (but I'm no lawyer) Martijn On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Guillaume Laforge glafo...@gmail.com

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread David Nalley
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: In contrast, from a legal standpoint, a signed Software Grant doesn't change much when the codebase is already under the ALv2. (Quite

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:42 PM, P. Taylor Goetz ptgo...@gmail.com wrote: ...what are the best practices to follow when creating a new project, outside the ASF, with the goal of eventually contributing that work to an existing ASF project?... Following as much of our maturity model [1] as

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:03 AM, David Nalley da...@gnsa.us wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: In contrast, from a legal standpoint, a signed Software Grant

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Alex Harui
IANAL, but this is what I learned when prepping code donations: 1) Every line of code is owned by some entity (a person or other legal entity) 2) The person who owned it (may be different from the person who wrote it) and added it to the collection of code did so under some terms. 3) If those

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...Could you please provide an URL (if for nothing else, just for a future reference). Here: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: ...For Groovy, it is sufficient for G to sign on

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...Could you please provide an URL (if for nothing else, just for a future reference). Here: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:19 PM,

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread P. Taylor Goetz
This seems like an appropriate thread to raise a question that’s been in the back of my head for a while… If a new project is created on github (or elsewhere — i.e. outside of the ASF), but with the intention that it would be contributed to an existing ASF project (ALv2 license from day 1),

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread jonathon
On 26/03/15 16:36, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: the project. What I was looking for is a more general statement along the lines of what Benson has provided earlier on this thread, but coming from a VP of legal. This is for the purposes of documenting it for future projects coming to ASF. From

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Guillaume Laforge
So, in summary, can we all agree that I (Groovy projet lead / representative) can fill in the form, and say on behalf of the Groovy community, I grant the rights to the ASF? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny elecha...@gmail.com wrote: I think we are going a bit too far here.

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread James Carman
I really have no opinion on the matter (IANAL). I'm just a virtual paper pusher, but I did want to have a clear understanding of the requirements so that when folks ask us on secretary@, we can guide them to the right place or give them the right advice. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:43 AM,

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Emmanuel Lécharny
Le 26/03/15 14:43, Guillaume Laforge a écrit : So, in summary, can we all agree that I (Groovy projet lead / representative) can fill in the form, and say on behalf of the Groovy community, I grant the rights to the ASF? Jim said Just do it !... Let's discuss about the legal aspect there, but

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Emmanuel Lécharny
Le 26/03/15 15:11, Upayavira a écrit : On Thu, Mar 26, 2015, at 01:31 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: I think we are going a bit too far here. Groovy has been under the AL 2.0 license since it moves from BSD (back in 2003). AL 2.0 says : Subject to the terms and conditions of this License,

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Jim Jagielski
There is no official, legal entity which can make the actual transfer. When we created the ASF, out of the Apache Group, all members of the Apache Group signed the xfer which amounted to the SGA at the time. For Groovy, it is sufficient for G to sign on behalf of the Groovy Core Team. If we could

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:22 AM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: And that covers us from a legal standpoint? Is there anything special' about this situation that makes this appropriate? If you have a codebase which was not previously under the ALv2 -- say it was either

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: In contrast, from a legal standpoint, a signed Software Grant doesn't change much when the codebase is already under the ALv2. (Quite possibly it has zero effect but I'd need to ask a lawyer about the text of the

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Upayavira
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015, at 01:31 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: I think we are going a bit too far here. Groovy has been under the AL 2.0 license since it moves from BSD (back in 2003). AL 2.0 says : Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread James Carman
And that covers us from a legal standpoint? Is there anything special' about this situation that makes this appropriate? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: There is no official, legal entity which can make the actual transfer. When we created the ASF, out

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: And that covers us from a legal standpoint? Is there anything special' about this situation that makes this appropriate? There is nothing legal to cover here. Since all the code is AL 2.0, legally, we are fine.

Re: ICLA/CCLA/SGA guidelines for GitHub or multi-entity projects was: [Groovy] Next steps...

2015-03-26 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: If you have a codebase which was not previously under the ALv2 -- say it was either proprietary or available under a different open source license -- then the Software Grant is hugely important from a legal