>We could not in good conscience accept a donation without written, clear >intentions from the author. I suspect it will require a software grant and the >author will need to go through some legal paperwork to assent >that he has >ownership of the code and is willing to donate it to the ASF.
>I need to get more familiar with the details of what is required for the ASF >to accept software donations, but it's a complicated subject and time is >short. I do know that we want to be very sure we have all the details >in >order so we can be confident in saying that we have the right to continue to >produce the software. I can verify this from my experience with FlexUnit. It's a multistep process. This is what Bertrand provided me a while back and it's the starting point Chris must likely follow: http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt Mike
