Thanks Niklas and Bill for the timely response on legal questions. I was able to infer to a good extent.
Thanks Again, Atul. On 10/14/07, Niklas Gustavsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Atul Gohad wrote: > > 1. Can I get a proof of all the contributors to Apache FTP Server > project > > have entered the Apache Individual Contributor License Agreement ? > > Probably not. Contributors come in two forms, commiters and those > providing patches. For patches, we usually require the contributor to > use JIRA and click the button to approve its inclusion under the ASL > license. > > Commiters would have CLAs, but I believe that there might be commiters > that commited code before CLAs was in place. I don't know if this list > contains only commiters with CLAs or all: > http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html > > You could probably ask the ASF secretary to be sure, but you would need > a list of commiters first (you can get that from SVN). > > > 2. I see that the libraries used for slf4j-api and slf4j-log4j12 have > > copyrights from QOS.ch and SLF4J.ORG <http://slf4j.org/>. Are these > packages > > also warranted / licensed under Apache 2.0? Is there any agreement > between > > Apache and these organizations. > > SLF4J is licensed under a MIT licens, which is appropriate for use with > ASL licenensed code. As the code is MIT licensed, we do not need a > agreement with Ceki or any others organization around SLF4J. > > > 3. The above packages show author name as Ceki Gülcü, wanted to know > if he > > is also a direct contributor / committer for Apache FTP Server project? > I > > saw the list of contributors for Apache FTP Server, and do not see > his name, > > but want to make sure on this aspect. Also, is there any CLA given by > Ceki > > Gülcü. > > No, Ceki is not a contributor for FtpServer as far as I know. He is > however an ASF commiter, of log4j fame, and thus have a CLA. Not that it > should matter for any use of FtpServer. > > /niklas > >
