On Jul 31, 2005, at 12:20 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote:
On 7/31/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2005, at 9:57 AM, robert burrell donkin wrote:
On 7/31/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. personally speaking, i do not accept
new files contributed through the lists which do not have the ASL2
boiler plate at the top. this way is common at apache.
We won't either, and we probably won't from the mailing list
anyway -
we'd ask that this kind of contribution is made through JIRA.
<snip>
it is very
difficult to see how a user posting code with a specific license
to a
mailing list is given knowing consent for that license to be
removed
and replaced by a different license by a third party. it all
seems a
little fuzzy legally.
I'm not quite sure what you are talking about here.
i was thinking about new files with an ASL boiler plate at the
top but
if these are going to accepted via JIRA then this isn't an issue.
Agreed. We're going to be very, very careful with incoming
contributions, because the mass of applicable code out there - all
the source to Sun's releases, for example - increases the risk that
we'll get something a copyright owner didn't actually contribute...
+1
i wonder whether JIRA could be persuaded to present some sort of click
through documentation reminding users that apache is only interested
in unencumbered original contributions.
our process will do our best to ensure that. Go read what we've been
doing. (Or look at the website... the proposed process is there)
IIRC the biggest part of bootstrapping commons-math was assembling
enough documentation to ensure everyone who wanted to contribute knew
enough about copyright law to be able to vouch for their
contributions. phil steitz is a good documentor and managed a
(somewhat) similar process with commons-math. i wonder whether he
might have some tips.
i want to try to boostrap some kind of legal FAQ for committers and
contributors (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-
general/200507.mbox/%3cOF921CA2B8.E4CA5C66-ON8025704A.
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but was considering the right place to bring up the subject (danny's
emails in the linked thread pretty much sum up the idea). so maybe
that'd be useful for harmony as well...
Sure. The more the merrier.
geir
- robert
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