> The ICLA transfers ownership to Apache
This is contrary to my understanding. In section 2 ("Grant of Copyright
License”) of the ICLA it specifically says that the signer agrees to *license*
the code to Apache; I understood this as not indicating transfer of
*ownership*. If ownership transfer was taking place, it seems the license grant
would be unnecessary?
I also came across the following comment by Bertrand Delacretaz on a mailing
list archive:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.legal.discuss/97
"No - as per http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt ("2. Grant of Copyright
License") which is what committers sign, they only grant a copyright license to
the ASF, but all committers keep copyright ownership of their contributions."
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