Will we ever know what portions are public domain? On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Adam P Fuchs wrote:
> We just faxed in a signed NSA CCLA and Software Grant for Accumulo. > > As Billie mentioned earlier, the Software Grant is unmodified, with a caveat > in the Exhibit A (List of software and other intellectual property covered by > this agreement), to state that some portions of Accumulo are in the public > domain, and that the copyright license is granted only for those materials > for which there is copyright. > > The CCLA is slightly modified. We broadened the definition of "You" (or > "Your") in section one to include "the owner of a contribution not subject to > copyright". We also modified the Grant of Copyright License in section two to > include the clause "to the extent that copyright exists in the > Contribution(s)". The full text of the modified CCLA is attached. Should we > pose this as a question to the LEGAL jira now to see if ASF will accept these > changes? > > Adam > <modified_CCLA.txt>
