Andy I have now got all the necessary legal and management clearance from Cray to move ahead with donating the experimental Hadoop RDF work that we¹ve previously discussed privately to the Jena project. So I am ready to move forwards with the IP Clearance process but I¹ve run into a slight snag in that it appears to require an ASF Member/Officer to actually formally be responsible for executing the process.
I think in reality this just means that an ASF member has to check that all the boxes have been appropriately ticked and run the necessary votes once we reach that stage of the process. As you are an ASF member would you be willing to do this? I am happy to do all the leg work, I already have the IP clearance document ready to commit to the Incubator website and the initial code base ready to commit to the Experimental area. Once these initial things are committed I can start working through the remaining steps such as changing the Copyright Headers, putting together the NOTICE and LICENSE files appropriately etc. I will also go ahead and file a JIRA for tracking purposes. Before I start on this I wanted to check that you are OK with acting as the responsible person for this? Cheers, Rob
