RE: IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright ownership?

2011-10-03 Thread Sander van der Waal
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

Re: IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright ownership?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
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

Re: IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright ownership?

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Wilson
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

IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright ownership?

2011-09-21 Thread Sander van der Waal
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

Re: IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright ownership?

2011-09-21 Thread Donald Whytock
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

Re: IP Clearance - transferral or licensing of copyright ownership?

2011-09-21 Thread Donald Whytock
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