My understanding is that the Lightbend CLA only gives Lightbend a license to use and redistribute the code; it doesn't transfer copyright. Where it gets tricky is that many PRs can incorporate parts of the existing code in various ways, so are effectively a derivative work rather than being totally original, and you're on shaky ground unless you can prove that the code it's based on is entirely ASL licensed. But like you said, the commit it's based on is entirely ASL licensed code so there is no issue.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 10:50 AM Jean-Luc Deprez <[email protected]> wrote: > Fact that Johannes authored most of the work wouldn't matter much, as I'd > guess copyright transfer would be in place. > > But what Johannes stated doing is the legal ground. A git commit is a copy > of the source, if that copy contains the ASL license instead of the BSL, > the ASL terms apply. So the last commit on branch before BSL merge is safe. > > Which is the legal ground for this whole endeavor anyway. > > > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 12:44 PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The original PR was created before the license was changed. I think it > > should be safe to take into pekko-http, especially since Johannes who > > wrote the original PR is and is offering to help with getting it into > > pekko-http. > > > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 12:29, Alexandru Nedelcu <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I’m resending this message from the “right” email address 🙂 > > > sorry for the duplicate… > > > > > > On 3 Nov 2022, at 12:07, Johannes Rudolph wrote: > > > > (Obviously, we should use the state of the scala-3 branch before the > > > > license change. Afterwards, a merge from main was added containing > the > > > > license change.) > > > > > > It would be great to merge that scala-3 branch. I think Akka-HTTP is > > > what’s keeping us at $work from migrating to Scala 3 (plus other > > > annoyances, but this is the big one). > > > > > > However — I’d ask if we are allowed. > > > > > > I am not a lawyer. Does code in that PR represent code that’s released > > > under APL-2.0? My hunch is that there may be issues with this. > > > > > > I think we should ask someone with legal expertise if we are allowed. > > > Can ASF help? > > > > > > -- > > > Alexandru Nedelcu > > > https://alexn.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > >
