Thanks Sander for the clarification. Regards.
On Wed, 23 Jun, 2021, 11:22 am Sander van Harmelen, <san...@vanharmelen.nl> wrote: > A, I just now see your message Rohit (it got in my spambox). But yes, I > think the mail I've send just now is pretty much inline with your > explanation in this mail... > > Sander > > On 23 Jun 2021, at 07:30, Rohit Yadav <ro...@apache.org> wrote: > > > My understanding is the plugin was originally started as a repo or work by > Sander ( > https://github.com/xanzy/terraform-provider-cloudstack/commits/master?after=5e7ccfea50810303a6b205084fb6f0b3eade33ca+314&branch=master) > who contributed it to the Hashicorp Github org like many other community > providers and then got it eventually transferred back. > > From ACS PMC point of view we're going to take the risk as we've ICLA and > grants from Sander and agreements over email from all the top contributors. > I've also gotten emails from other participants including Sander who shared > their frustration, we've jumped through all the hoops and done our best to > reach so far, I think Justin you had advised us to get all major > contributors to agree in the other legal thread but now suddenly we are > advised to get ICLAs too and from all the contributors. The examples you've > provided don't have ICLAs or agreements from all contributors. > > Originally I did attempt to get Hashicorp (the company, mainly a manager > and their CTO) to do the CCLA etc but they weren't interested and didnt > want to get involved but agreed to transfer the repo back to Sander. From > what I understand the project wasn't Hashicorp company project but was > started by Sander, was then under their Github org but eventually archived. > From email exchanges I had with Hashicorp it would unlikely their CTO or > managers be suing any parties for the initiatives and in fact offered to > work with ACS community in publishing the Terraform provider under ACS > official registry. As far as we had inquired Hashicorp the company has no > interest in maintaining the project any further, but users in ACS community > need it to be supported. Sander could you confirm if I got anything wrong? > Thanks. > > Regards. > > On Wed, 23 Jun, 2021, 10:41 am Justin Mclean, <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > >> HI, >> >> > Justin why do we need Hashicorp? They are not involved or are the owner >> of the codebase/repos. >> >> My understanding was the work was carried out in their repo and that they >> are probably the IP owner of the codebase. Is that correct? >> >> Also, currently [1] redirects to [2], I can see they host of what I >> assume are releases of the software [3] and I can see major contributors to >> that repo were/are Hashicorp employees. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Justin >> >> 1. http://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-cloudstack >> 2. https://github.com/xanzy/terraform-provider-cloudstack >> 3. https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform-provider-cloudstack/ > >
