On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Gianugo Rabellino < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:22 PM, David Pollak > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Apache 2.0 license, the license I granted in the code that I've > > contributed to the ESME project, states in section 4.3: > > > > You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You > > distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices > from > > the Source form of the Work, excluding those notices that do not pertain > to > > any part of the Derivative Works > > > > This was part of terms of my license grant in the code I developed for > > ESME. Can you point to a place in the CLA where I have abrogated this > part > > of the license in favor of ASF rules? > > I'm afraid you got it wrong. You haven't licensed code to Apache under > the AL - by signing a CLA, and committing code to Subversion, you have > donated your code to the ASF (or, more strictly speaking, licensed > your a copyright). It is the ASF, then, licensing it under the AL. If > it was not your intention to license the whole copyright, and if you > are not content with being recognized in the NOTICE file, that code > will have to go. > At no point did I assign any code to the ASF. I granted a license to the ASF and section 4.3 of the license I granted controls the retention of copyright notices. If you remove the copyright notices from the code that I committed to the ESME project, I will consider that a violation of license I granted to the ASF. If a lawyer wants to discuss this further, I am available. > > -- > Gianugo Rabellino > M: +44 779 5364 932 / +39 389 44 26 846 > Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics
