No, the ASF owns the code, as it was donated at time of submission.
Stephen
As i read the CLA and the software grant agreement the ASF doesn't own the code, it's just a license agreement and not a copyright transfert. That means the ASF is granted by the copyright holder the right to "reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute and sublicense" the code, that's most of the rights of the copyright holder except the right to register the work to the Copyright Office and the right to claim copyright and sue for infringements.
I think it's interesting to compare this situation with the Mozilla relicensing. While Netscape was entitled to relicense the work of its employees (as the ASF is allowed to relicense the work of the contributors who signed the CLA), they spent a significant time hunting down every non-netscape contributor to request the permission to relicense their code. IMHO the relicensing to the Apache License 2.0 is a similar case.
Emmanuel Bourg
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