On 10/2/03 4:05 "Lawrence E. Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It should be noted that Apache Software Foundation members
>> are the legal
>> *owners* of the software that is available under the Apache
>> Software License. Indeed, that is one of the key benefits to
>> becoming an ASF member, as opposed to just a committer on one
>> or more projects. It seems perfectly reasonable that
>> decisions on the license under which that software is
>> licensed should be made by the people that own it.
>
> I'm curious. What is the legal basis for this claim of ownership?
The fact that each contributor, prior access to our CVS repository, signs a
paper saying that for whatever goes in CVS, he assigns copyright and
ownership of the code to the ASF... No more no less than what any random
employee of a software company does with his employer...
Pier
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