Paul Fremantle wrote: > >> and track the specs > > > That is the concern, if we are tracking unpublished specs. If you are > under an NDA with the spec group, then you may not have had the right > to contribute the code that you contributed to the sandbox. As no-one > has yet answered my questions about the the IP arrangements of the > spec group this is pure supposition. Maybe someone will get round to > answering those questions. Or maybe the NDA is under NDA and no-one is > allowed to post that information here :-) >
The key thing here is that all contributors have signed a CLA that says that they do have the right to contribute the IP. In these times most software developers need to deal with Confidential material in some form whether it is part of their employment, a contract they are involved in, or other discussions. As it can't track all these arrangements, the ASF relies on its contributors to honour the contract that they signed. The feedback agreement is linked off the spec homepages but here's a direct link: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/wsspec/agreement/sca As an indicator of how the process works you can see that the only information that is Confidential is that which is explicitly marked as "confidential" - which isn't much and certainly isn't stuff that we discuss in the project. As Jim said, you can also get the full participant agreement from Mike. I've pinged him as well and asked him to respond. -- Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
