When an individual or corporation decides to donate a body of existing software or documentation to one of the Apache projects, they need to execute a formal Software Grant agreement with the ASF. Typically this is done after negotiating approval with the ASF board of directors, since the ASF will not accept software unless there is a viable community available to support a collaborative project.
Maybe you will have to sign this stuff at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt
as well.
I am rather helpless, but would recommend brining this to the PMC as well.
Cheers,
Oliver
Pill, Juergen wrote:
Hello,
We (the committers of Software AG) have signed this CLA.
When checking in we keep the suggested copyright header of Michael, isn't it?
Best regards,
Juergen
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hartmeier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 10:18
To: Slide Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Tamino store and user-role-management donation
Oops, I didn't see that part of their license page.
Ok, we have to sign this contract.
As far as I understand, that's independent from the copyright header below, i.e. we could stick with "Copyright Software AG". Correct?
Michael
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 20:52, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
On 2 Feb 2004, at 10:24, Michael Hartmeier wrote:
I want to prepare the license/copyright header in the source files
to
be donated. According to http://www.apache.org/licenses/ we should use the apache 2 license, which means the header would
look
like this:
* Copyright 1999-2004 Software AG * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, * either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions * and limitations under the License.
I wonder about the copyright holder. Is it ok to stick with a Software AG copyright or do we have to transfer it to Apache
Software
Foundation?
You have to transfer it to the ASF and you have to sign the CLA if you
haven't done so already.
SoftwareAG still retains copyright as the original owner, but the ASF gets a non-revocable, worldwide, permanent ability to distribute it
and
make derivative copies of it. And for this, it must be given
copyright.
-- Stefano.
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