Exactly ... just bring the work into the ASF under its ALv2 license. You don't need permission from (all) contributors to use the software under that license. That's *why* we have licenses!
Rewriting the headers is a little trickier, though. I'd suggest a two step process: 1) bring in the code, but don't (yet) touch any of the license/copyright headers in there 2) ask legal-discuss what to do with the headers Cheers, -g ps. I'd think: for any file jbnote touched, keep/push the existing header down and prepend the standard ASF header; all other untouched files, replace any header with ours. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Looks like the repo was placed under the Apache License long before this > individual contributed. So, IMO, if you are convinced this individual and > his employer knew his contributions were placed under the Apache License > you could gamble and accept his contributions. If you get an objection > later, you can delete and re-implement the contributions. > > My 2 cents, > -Alex > > On 1/14/16, 10:45 AM, "Josh Elser" <els...@apache.org> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >(with my podling member hat on) > > > >We have a bit of a problem over in Slider with a code donation. Full > >details can be found at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLIDER-977 > > > >In short, an app-package (a modular chunk of code that Slider runs on > >Apache Hadoop's YARN ) for Kafka was offered to be included in Slider. > >Slider would love to accept it. We've gotten IP clearance from all but > >one party who contributed to it. > > > >To the best of my knowledge, this individual contributed code to this > >Kafka app-package and his company could also lay claim to his > >contribution. He already had an ICLA on file, but no CCLA from his > >company. > > > >Two months later, multiple pings on JIRA and even a personal email, this > >person seems to be AWOL. Given my understanding of the rules, we can't > >proceed because we don't have the ability to prove all potential > >previous ownership of this codebase has been granted to the ASF. > > > >Any advice on how we could try to move this forward? > > > >Thanks. > > > >- Josh > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
