Besides legal questions, I think the question is merely if we want this to happen at the ASF.
Why aren't all other companies in there that are paying people to also work on open source ? How is possible that a company requires the ASF to put it in the source repository. Isn't this a community decision ? You actually made a specific branch to work on this code, which we can based on the information I have see as a vendor branch ? Why is this investment worth more than investments of other companies in the various projects of the ASF. I can name a lot of companies without their name in the NOTICE file which at least should receive the same treatment. It could be that my worry that a line is getting crossed here is based on incorrect or incomplete information or that the spirit of these kind of things have changed during my "inactivity". Based on what I learned here more than 10 years ago from the "ASF veterans", this just doesn't feel right. Mvgr, Martin 2012/11/21 Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]> > Hi, > in Syncope we have been discussing [1] about some aspects related to our > NOTICE file and wed like to ask your opinion about this. > > A part of my current work for Syncope is actually paid by one of my > customers that is actually financed in turn by SURFnet. > They explicitly required that such code has to be part of the official > Syncope repository and releases and are also asking to include in the > NOTICE file the following extract: > > Portions of this software are developed by the support of the SURF, the > higher education and research partnership organization for Information and > Communications Technology (ICT) in The Netherlands. For more information > about SURF, please visit www.surf.nl. > > They have also provided a previous reference [2] in Apache Rave, for > which they have signed a corporate CLA [3] and software grant [4]. > > Do you see any issue with this? Is this fine, provided that they sign > another grant for Syncope? > > Thanks for your support. > Regards. > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/ux6xpt332uoqfjdq > [2] > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/rave/donations/surfconext-portal/coin-portal/trunk/NOTICE > [3] http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt > [4] http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
