HI,
> “….most of the initial committers haven't signed ICLAs. They did however
> report this month.”
>
> I know for a fact that, in addition to me, these folks have signed ICLA as
> they are listed as committers on
> http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html:
>
> Go Yamamoto
> Kealan McCusker
> Patrick Hilt
> Stanislav Mihaylov
> Jan Willem Janssen
These are people on the initial committer list / PPMC list who have AFAIK not
signed ICLAs or if they have they are missing from the roster:
• Akira Nagai (NTT)
• Fuji Hitoshi (NTT)
• Genoveffa Pagano (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Jordan Katserov (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Kenji Takahishi (NTT)
• Michael Scott (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Milen Rangelove (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Mitko Yugovski (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Nick Pateman (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Simeon Aladhem (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Stanislav Mihaylov (Certivox/MIRACL)
• Tetsutaro Kobayashi (NTT)
> I just want to point out that MIRACL, the company, filed a Software/Patent
> Grant and Corporate CCLA on Thursday, March 26, 2016 which covered the GitHub
> repos in question and from what I can see on the contributors listed to the
> repos they are covered/listed in the Corporate CCLA. I'm assuming that checks
> all the boxes then to port the GitHub repos in question over to the Milagro
> Apache Git repos, right?
It may or may not, the corporate CLA covers MIRACL not the ASF. What you would
need is a software grant and I’m not sure MIRACL ended up granting the software
to the ASF as it’s not listed here [3]? If so it would only cover what was in
the grant, not software developed after that outside of the ASF. You would
also need to check that all people who have made significant contributions are
also covered by ICLAs. [1] Look for example what Apache Dubbo did. [2] Feel
free to check / ask about any of this on legal discuss for a second opinion as
INAL.
> To reiterate I think it is in the best interest of the project to take the
> code in GitHub that was already covered under the CLA and do a merge into the
> Apache Git so we don't lose the years of development spent on it per
> Giorgio’s plan.
>
> I note that the code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
ASF projects don’t take other ASF license code without permission from the
owners, to do so could be viewed as a hostile fork and we don’t do that. Again
if in doubt please ask about this on the incubator general list or on legal
discuss list.
Thanks,
Justin
1. https://incubator.apache.org/guides/ip_clearance.html
2. https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/wiki/CLA-signing-status
3. http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
