Hi there. Matthias suggested this would be a good alias to ask for experience at ASF on Contribution Agreements. Some of you may remember me from my Sun days; I'm now working at RIM and as I apply my experience to our projects I notice situations I had not considered/encountered at Sun [2,3].
The Apache contribution agreement [1] does not seem to include a mechanism by which a signatory of the CA can indicate that future IP is no longer covered. Not something to revoke previous contributions but just for the future, say to be clear of his/her intentions. Is that correct? If so, is it because the need has never arisen?, because its hard to do legally?, because it is very easy to do?, or something else? BTW, as far as I know, Sun didn't have any such mechanism either. Thanks, Eduard/o (Pelegri-Llopart) - OSS @ RIM [1]http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt [2]http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.3.pdf [3]http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.4.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
