Friday, March 9, 2018, 4:50:47 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote: > Friday, March 9, 2018, 3:25:35 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >> Le 09/03/2018 à 13:56, Daniel Dekany a écrit : >>> Surely that >>> possibility is a major feature of these OS licenses... but of course >>> we can't do that here at the ASF (or, I presume so). >> I think the contrary, the ASL2 is permissive not the LGPL 2.1 which >> is copyleft. > > I didn't imply anything like that. What I meant is that you can fork > FreeMarker IDE whenever you wish, as the license allows that. But we > can't do it at the ASF, and that was new to at least some of them. > >> That's my concern for the others "individual contributors". > > Same here. > > There are around 30 committers involved during the 12 years at RedHat, > about half of them are (or was) RedHat employees according the e-mail > addresses.
I was hasty here... as some people use multiple e-mail addresses, it's actually "only" 19 contributors, out of which 11 is/was at RedHat. > Before that, the plugin was originally created by Joe > Hudson (https://sourceforge.net/projects/freemarker-ide/). Hopefully > he was working alone. > >> How to be sure they agree about giving their rights to the ASF? >> It's OK for us if RedHat does the job, else we need to do it near the others >> "individual contributors" >> >> Jacques >> >> > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
