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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-1181:
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Hi [~dileepaj],
Usually the way the CLA works is the following:
- The granting organization owns the code privately and holds the copyright;
- The granting organization wishes to relicense the code for use and
distribution by the Apache Software Foundation;
- The granting organization fills out the CLA, and provides the granted code as
a zip or tar to Apache, who sets up a project and licenses the code under the
Apache 2 license, provided that the project has been accepted into the Apache
Incubator first.
If Zaizi has already open-sourced the code through another means, and made it
available under the Apache 2 license, there is no need for Zaizi to fill out a
CLA with Apache. As soon as the code is made publicly available with Apache 2
license headers, effectively Zaizi has done that. Even if this open-sourcing
was done incorrectly, that is without the knowledge or legal approval of the
appropriate officers of Zaizi, the code still exists in the open source realm
and cannot readily be "un-open-sourced".
For the connector and client project, my understanding is that these have
resided, freely available, with appropriate open-source headers in GitHub for
quite some time. If that's the case, I do not think a CLA grant is needed.
But if you want to make the client an Apache project, you would need to
approach the Apache Incubator, make your case for it, and have a vote held.
Alternatively, we could decide to include the code as part of the Stanbol
connector in the MCF project, but then it would not be available separately for
other potential users.
Hope this helps.
> Apache Stanbol Transformation Connector
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: CONNECTORS-1181
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-1181
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 1.8.2, ManifoldCF 2.0.2
> Reporter: Rafa Haro
> Assignee: Rafa Haro
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: connect, transformation
> Fix For: ManifoldCF 2.4
>
>
> Apache Stanbol (https://stanbol.apache.org/) provides a set of reusable
> components for semantic content management. One of this component is the
> Enhancer (https://stanbol.apache.org/docs/trunk/components/enhancer/) which
> allows to extract features and semantic metadata from textual content like
> entities/concepts from domain ontologies, named entities and so on.
> Apache Stanbol provides an easy-to-use REST API. The main idea behind this
> transformation connector would be to enrich the Repository Document's
> (string) content with a configured Stanbol processing chain. The
> Transformation Connector would allow the user to configure the metadata that
> will be extracted from the Enhancer result for including it as RD's metadata
> This behavior come to somehow replace the functionality of the old Apache
> Stanbol CMS Adapter
> (https://stanbol.apache.org/docs/trunk/components/cmsadapter/) and ContentHub
> (https://stanbol.apache.org/docs/trunk/components/contenthub/)
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