I went to legal-discuss with this and received a satisfactory answer.
Here's the proposed patch to the IP clearance page. If I don't get any
negative feedback I'll apply the patch within 48 hours.
Index:
C:/Dev/apache.org/rw/incubator-public-trunk/site-author/ip-clearance/index.xml
===================================================================
---
C:/Dev/apache.org/rw/incubator-public-trunk/site-author/ip-clearance/index.xml
(revision 374837)
+++
C:/Dev/apache.org/rw/incubator-public-trunk/site-author/ip-clearance/index.xml
(working copy)
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
</p>
<p>The receiving PMC is responsible for doing the work. The Incubator is
simply the repository of the needed information. Once a PMC directly
-checks-in a filled-out short form, everything is done.
+checks-in a filled-out short form, the Incubator PMC will need to approve the
+paper work after which point the receiving PMC is free to import the code.
</p>
<p>All PMCs must handle incoming code in this way. Any code that was
developed outside of the ASF SVN repository must be processed like
@@ -208,6 +209,30 @@
</td>
</tr>
</table>
+ <section id="notes">
+ <title>Additional notes</title>
+ <p>
+ The software grant requires that "Licensor owns or has sufficient
+ rights to contribute the software source code...". In the case where
+ there are multiple entities involved that only together have
sufficient
+ rights (for example in the case of an existing external project with
+ multiple contributors), there are basically two possibilities to
continue:
+ </p>
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ All entities sign the same software grant together and submit one
software
+ grant form. This is preferred but obviously can complicate the
process
+ considerably.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ The alternative is that each party sign its own software grant
while
+ everyone references the same contribution (designated by a URL and
an MD5
+ hash over the ZIP file representing the contribution). It is
recommended
+ that a comment is added to the software grant form that it is only
a part
+ in the puzzle.
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </section>
</section>
</body>
</document>
On 01.02.2006 14:09:02 Manuel Mall wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:40, Leo Simons wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:05:01PM +0800, Manuel Mall wrote:
> > > We would like to include a software module currently hosted on
> > > SourceForge into the codebase of the Apache FOP project. The
> > > developers who wrote the module have indicated their willingness to
> > > do so (actually are very keen to do this) and we have their ICLAs.
> > > What I don't quite understand is the additional software grant
> > > (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#grants) required.
> > >
> > > On the grant form is says: ""Licensor owns or has sufficient
> > > rights to contribute the software source code". In this case we
> > > don't have a single Licensor but a group of people. How does the
> > > form work in such a case as it seems to make the assumption that
> > > the Licensor is either a single person or a single organisation?
> >
> > I think the answer is that every person from that group sends in the
> > grant paperwork. The legal-discuss mailing list is probably where to
> > query for an authoritive answer.
> >
>
> OK, I'll go to legal-discuss with this question. The problem is if I for
> example would be a contributor to the SourceForge project in question
> and would get presented with the form I won't be able to sign it (in
> good conscience) as I individually have not sufficient rights to
> contribute the software.
>
> > I think that the receiving PMC is the body responsible for figuring
> > this stuff out, so they should probably be CCed in (sorry, don't know
> > top-of- head which PMC is for FOP).
>
> It was a member of the receiving PMC (xmlgraphics) who send me to this
> mailing list for clarification :-).
>
> >
> > http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
> >
> > Is the base URL for incubator-related IP stuff information.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Leo
>
> Manuel
Jeremias Maerki
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