On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Makoto Yui <m...@treasure-data.com> wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > I'm going to answer your two questions. > >> 1) Who were the copyright holders at the time of relicensing? > > At the time of re-licensing, the copyright holder was AIST, > my employer at that time.
Looking at the Github history, though, it seems that there were pull requests and issues file by others prior to the Mar 16, 2015 relicensing. Were there any contributions made before then by people not employed by AIST? If everyone worked for AIST, then there is no problem. However, if there were substantial (copyrightable) contributions from people not employed by AIST pre-dating the relicensing, then it will be necessary to contact the copyright holders and secure their permission to license under the ALv2. So long as it is possible to figure out the true origin of all code from the project history, problems of permission can usually be resolved. What's more difficult to resolve is stuff like copy/pasting without attribution, so that code from somewhere else appears to be the work of a different author. (I have no reason to think any such issues exist other than the mild confusion of this thread, which could arise due to many factors including the language barrier or my own misunderstandings.) If you know of anything like that in the project history I'd suggest communicating privately. If not, then no problem. >> 2) How was their permission secured? > > Hivemall was at that time my solo research project at AIST. > I took a permission to change the license to ALv2 from AIST then. > > I did some paper works and I'm still holding it. > Unfortunately, it's written in Japanese. > > They also agreed to move Hivemall to Apache Incubator. Excellent -- it's great that AIST supports open source software! > I'm considering to take Software Grant Agreement sign from them > in the incubation process. That would be appropriate. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
