On Jan 14, 2008 3:29 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > Is a project under incubation allowed to import its existing sources > > (not under the Apache license) into the Apache svn? And after > > graduation from the incubator, is it ok for the svn history to > > still show those old non-apl files in the history? > > > I hope the answer is simply "yes". It is nice to be able to see the > > complete history of any file, even before its move to Apache. However > > this does mean that non-apl source can be downloaded via the apache > > svn server which seems a little odd. > > I honestly don't remember, and seem to recall that we've had both things > happen in the past, with discussion about it. There have definitely been > statements to the effect that projects can clean up their licensing while > in > the Incubator. That also seems to be implied by the presence of the > Copyright and Distribution Rights questions in the STATUS file. > > On the other hand, I also believe that the ASF should have the code grants > prior to importing the code into SVN. > > Discussion? > > --- Noel >
The current draft of the proposed third party licensing policy mentions this and seems to allow it, see: http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html#transition-incubator ...ant
