On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:00 PM, David Pollak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
What is the bit of "You hereby grant to the Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license" that you don't understand exactly? > 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. You are more than welcome to post a question to [email protected]. But if I were in your shoes, I would go and re-read the ICLA I assume you signed. -- Gianugo Rabellino M: +44 779 5364 932 / +39 389 44 26 846 Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com
