Thanks, Greg. I thought the whole point of this part of the process was that we could assign the copyright from the original contributors to the ASF - the thing that licenses wouldn't be covering. That's great that this isn't a sticking point, I'm just honestly a bit confused. On Jan 15, 2016 12:15 AM, "Greg Stein" <gst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > > > > > > >
