hi matt, imo we have to care about it in case of other external contributions we are going to get quite soon.
however, in case of seam3 i don't see any issue at all. #1 redhat has a ccla on file #2 they contacted us [1] to join forces (and they found out that the asf is also a great place for them to do so) and they announced it as well [2] #3 their employees who wrote the original source-code do the initial import after we agreed on it from a technical point of view #4 basically there isn't a license issue at all, because the source-code is AL v2 licensed already (@our higher quality standard: see #1-#3) if we think that #1-#4 isn't enough, imo it's faster to ask redhat to write a formal letter that they grant us access explicitly. for sure that's just my personal opinion. regards, gerhard [1] http://goo.gl/u3ewl [2] http://planet.jboss.org/post/seam_next_announcement 2012/1/16 Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> > It may also be pertinent to note that the codebases here in question > are also ALv2 licensed. > > Matt > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Matt Benson <mben...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, all--per [1], "Generally, the mentors of a new project will need > > to consult with general@incubator.apache.org or the Apache legal team > > about the particular circumstances." So, here I am. > > > > The situation can be read in detail at [2], but in short is this: > > DeltaSpike is intended to amalgamate "best of" add-on solutions from > > the Java EE community with regard to the "Contexts and Dependency > > Injection for the Java EE platform" (CDI) specification. Thus its > > sources may incorporate code originating from numerous sources, but > > due to a number of reasons including e.g. anticipated feature overlap, > > it does not seem appropriate to include whole codebases under software > > grants. The specific question at the moment regards code to which Red > > Hat holds the copyright. The ASF has a filed CCLA from Red Hat, but I > > have been taking the position that we still need some form of > > assurance that code relating to CDI (primarily embodied in the Solder > > and Seam) projects is *specifically* approved for contribution to > > DeltaSpike. I'll present the basic question in multiple-choice form > > (with options shown in order of difficulty): > > > > What do we need to show provenance? > > a. Nothing. Stop being so damned paranoid. The CCLA is enough. > > b. DeltaSpike's Red Hat-employed committers' assurance that their > > employer is "on board." > > c. A signed statement from Red Hat to the effect that their > > employees are authorized to contribute CDI-related code. > > d. A software grant for any codebase, even if we only intend to > > cherry-pick from it. > > e. Jim Whitehurst's eternal soul. > > f. Something else, namely _____. > > > > Thanks, > > Matt on behalf of DeltaSpike > > > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#initial-ip-clearance > > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/g65yi42mdzvq5bu2 >
