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 re

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

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 appro

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 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Sander van der Waal > wrote: >> On the other hand, the ASF general FA

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 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 says > "Check and make sure