From: Robert Burrell Donkin [mailto:robertburrelldon...@gmail.com]
Sent: 22 September 2011 11:20
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright
ownership?
Hi Sander
Hi Robert,
Many thanks for your detailed reply, that's been very
Hi Sander
I'm glad you asked these questions here: asking well researched
questions is the best way to improve our process and documentation
but just for the record, the legal-discuss list[1] is the right place
for projects to ask almost all questions about copyright (being
public, it's not
On 22 Sep 2011, at 11:20, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
Hi Sander
I'm glad you asked these questions here: asking well researched
questions is the best way to improve our process and documentation
but just for the record, the legal-discuss list[1] is the right place
for projects to ask
I'm trying to get my head around the IP clearance process and
specifically about what happens to the copyright ownership during that
process. Although IP clearance gets discussed once in a while on this
list I couldn't find a clear answer in the archives on this specific
point.
When a
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Sander van der Waal
sander.vanderw...@oucs.ox.ac.uk wrote:
On the other hand, the ASF general FAQ states that the copyright of ASF
projects is owned by the ASF, more specifically The members own the
code [5]. Also the IP Clearance template [6] has a check that
Apologies...shouldn't have cited [6]. Meant to cite [2]:
[2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt
Good thing IANAL.
Don
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Sander van der Waal
sander.vanderw...@oucs.ox.ac.uk