Hi Jacob,
On 10 Oct 2013, at 23:50, Jacob Beard wrote:
I'm the author of an open source project which project grew out of an
ASF-mentored Google Summer of Code project three years ago. This
project
has been in constant development ever since, and has grown into a
mature
code-base, used in production in several places. I am interested in
contributing this project back to ASF, and it seems like the way to do
that
is by submitting it as an incubator project.
cool!
I have a question regarding licensing. I developed part of this
project
during my current employment, and my employer gave me permission to
publish
my work under an Apache 2 license on Github. I believe they will be
supportive of my request to submit the project to ASF. However, I will
be
changing my employment soon (they are aware of this), and so I would
like
to resolve all the IP issues with them now, while I am still at the
company. I would therefore like to verify that, in order to contribute
the
project to ASF, they will be required to sign a Corporate CLA, and a
Software Grant Agreement.
yes, the company will need to sign a software grant and imho should sign
a corporate CLA.
I would also like to check if there is any issue with having them sign
these documents early in the process, before I submit the Incubator
proposal?
It definitely makes sense and I am not aware of an issues. In your
situation I would do the same.
There is of course a chance the incubator pmc rejects your proposal.
Is there anything else I should be aware of at this stage?
Please note, most project which are accepted have already a community.
It reads as your
project would have one. If you know a few people here I would also
recommend you to "recruit" a Champion
even before you submit the proposal. I would think your GSOC mentors
might be able to help you.
A Champion is very good to have with the first steps.
You should wait a little bit if somebody else has another thing to add
to my comments.
Cheers
Christian
Thanks for your attention, and I look forward to receiving your
comments.
Jacob Beard
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