On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 18:40, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@openoffice.org> wrote: > Like most volunteers at OpenOffice.org I signed a contributor agreement > years ago. Actually, many of the committers listed in the proposal > signed one of: > http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/jca.pdf Joint Copyright Assignment > http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf Sun Contributor Agreement > http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf Oracle Contributor Agreement > > All the three versions, enforced in different periods of time, grant > Oracle (joint) ownership of the contributions committed to the > "OpenOffice.org project" and cannot be revoked, in the sense that they > apply to any future contributions too. > > It's unclear to me whether this would have implications on the proposed > Apache project. Is there some official continuity in place that > transfers validity of these agreements to the Apache project too (i.e., > my future contributions to the Apache project will still be co-owned by > Oracle, since by continuity the Apache project is still to be considered > the "OpenOffice.org project")? Or this legacy does not exist and all > agreements in place will become void? I know about the iCLA policy, but > here I'm just interested in the pre-existing agreements with Sun/Oracle.
My understanding is that we would be classified as a different "project", under the agreements' definitions of "project". Thus, only the Apache ICLA should hold true. You will be committing to svn.apache.org rather than *.openoffice.org. Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
