A very good question/point originated as part of the HAWQ podling release discussion. I'm forking it into a separate thread and CCing legal-discuss to help clarify this (at least for myself) once and for all.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > AIUI, if it is 3rd party and otherwise unmodified, modification of the > headers is not an option. Alex, I actually happen to 100% agree with you on top of which, our current policy seems to agree with us: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party which means in NO way am I proposing to re-open it for discussion around modifying the policy. That said, I actually think we may not have a legal leg to stand on if we want to claim it is actually illegal for an ASF header to be put on the 3d party code (even if it is unmodified) that is licensed under the licensed compatible with ALv2. Walk with me here... At the end of the day, adding the header is not some magic operation it is a human readable statement. So lets read through the most relevant part of that statement: ======================================================= Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. ======================================================= There are two way I can see how to read this "Licensed to..." statement. The first one is, indeed, along the lines of an original author re-licensing code under a different license. Clearly, only original author(s) can make that statement. However, a different way to read it (tell me if I'm stretching here) is to interpret it as an overall project that is being "Licensed to..." with the file itself remaining under the original license. That, of course, would require preservation of the original licensing information (made even trickier if the file didn't include licensing statement to begin with). However, if the original licensing information is preserved it sounds like adding such a statement should be possible. What do others think? Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
