Thank goodness, common sense applies :-)

Now we can proceed with the release candidate.

Thanks,
Frank.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/21/2007 05:27:35 PM:

> On 3/21/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mar 20, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Frank Budinsky wrote:
> >
> > > I've confirmed that IBM, the copyright holder, gives permission to
> > > Apache
> > > to reuse the two EMF files in question.
> >
> > Thanks for confirming this.
> >
> > >
> > > I've opened TUSCANY-1185 to contribute the two base classes,
> > > provided in
> > > an attachment.
> > >
> > > Jeremy, let me know if this is good enough for you, or if you still
> > > want
> > > me to remove the Tuscany subclasses and resubmit them.
> >
> > I can't ack this for the ASF - that has to be done by an Officer as
> > described in the IP Clearance process. They would probably want
> > something official from IBM (Software Grant).
> 
> I am a director of the ASF.
> 
> Apparently the original copyright holder desires to contribute the
> same code to two different places under two different licenses.  They
> are certainly within their rights to do so.  The contribution under
> the other license isn't particularly relevant to me.  Now, concerning
> the contribution which is presumably being made in good faith under
> the ASF license to the Tuscany project, I see no ASF wide legal or
> policy issue here, which means that the only remaining issue a
> technical one, namely whether or not tuscany wishes to accept this
> code.
> 
> Now, if anybody has any reason to believe that the assertion of
> authorship is false (i.e., if there are Eclipse CVS or SVN logs which
> show contributions by others), then the issue is an entirely different
> one...
> 
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