There was a process involved at Twitter when we first moved it to the openzipkin organization. It was 100% clear that this was an act for the community to control the code. Senior management were involved https://groups.google.com/d/msg/zipkin-user/fbOgEZpuQx4/bWH1-__EmCoJ
After that, all the repositories had contributing files like the below indicating that all changes we to be redistributable under ASL https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#license There was no collection of contributor agreements beyond this. Most of the code except save some UI assets have been completely rewritten since the migration to OpenZipkin a few years back. Hope these details help, -A On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:09 AM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mick, > > tldr; with my Incubator PMC hat on, "all that needs to be done" is to > establish that all of the copyright owners sign either a Software Grant or an > ICLA. > > In order to establish that Apache has the rights to the code base, every line > of code needs to have its provenance researched. > > Looking at the proposal https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZipkinProposal it > seems like most of the code is in the github repository > https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin . Is there any code coming from another > source? Was the original code from Twitter granted to OpenZipkin? Is there > any documentation of that copyright transfer? Does Twitter retain any rights? > > The capitalization of the "Initial Source" section is a bit strange. But can > we assume that the only committers to the project are listed at > https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/graphs/contributors ? > > The proposal also says that "All source code is copyrighted to 'The > OpenZipkin Authors', to which the existing core community(members list in > Initial Committers) has the rights to re-assign to the ASF. " > > It looks like there were many people who contributed a few lines of code. Did > they sign anything like a Contributor Agreement that grants their copyright > to The OpenZipkin Authors? > > Craig > > > On Sep 18, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > It's come up that the migration of the github Zipkin repositories to ASF > > requires either a signed SGA or a sign-off from the Secretary. Chris raised > > this on `INFRA-16989 – Zipkin incubator project request for the GitHub > > repositories moving service`. > > > > I was under the impression that if the Copyright was already held by the > > community, it is held by 'The OpenZipkin Authors', that the ICLA from all > > those authors would suffice and a SGA not be required. And it's news to me > > that this would also require a sign-off from the ASF Secretary. > > > > What's the correct process here? who can help? should I forward the > > question to the Secretary? > > > > regards, > > Mick > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > Craig L Russell > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > c...@apache.org <mailto:c...@apache.org> http://db.apache.org/jdo > <http://db.apache.org/jdo> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
