I'll move the discussion to legal-discuss@ just to make sure any bases are covered that need to be (and nothing will come back to haunt the asf).
-jean Henri Yandell wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > >> A user just posted an example -- with code -- to the Derby wiki: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DatabaseManager >> >> My first reaction is delight that a user has energy to do this. >> >> My second reaction is to wonder about licensing issues. Jira upload has >> the handy feature that it prompts the uploader to check a box that >> grants license to the ASF. The wiki has nothing like that. > > > However, neither does Bugzilla. If the Jira upload box is legally > necessary, we have much bigger problems than the wiki example. > > Also, a user example on the wiki isn't something the ASF owns is it? > > I imagine it's more like an email on the mailing list with a piece of > code in it. The ASF is the owner of the compound work (or something like > that) but the original author remains the owner. > > Might be a legal-discuss question. Maybe all these types of things (and > examples in books etc) just get rolled under the carpet as 'too small to > be important'. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
