On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:52 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
ASF mailing lists are protected to some degree by the community's
acceptance that the work done on those lists will be distributed
under the Apache license. We have a legal argument (not a slam dunk)
that nobody could possibly participate on one of our lists without
knowing that the products we produce are under the Apache License,
and therefore a person posting code would not be able to claim
damages for infringing their copyright on redistribution. However,
that doesn't mean they lose their copyright -- they can still
prevent us from using the code in future releases.
Could we not make it a slam dunk by putting some text in the
confirmation email sent when you subscribe to the mailing list saying
"you hereby agree that all email sent to this address are implicitly
licensed as ASL2"?
That is the plan for Apache Harmony - plus a monthly reminder. I was
going to then proselytize that to the rest of the ASF.
geir
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