On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:07 AM Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> wrote:
> So ultimately, what do we do? > Do I (current Groovy project lead, thus project representative) need to > sign something "on behalf of the Groovy community" or something like that? > Or we just skip this step altogether since that's the community's intention > as a whole? > I believe where we got to with Tinkerpop was to submit a SGA from the major contributors in the community [1]. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-tinkerpop-dev/201502.mbox/%3C54CFE2A4.9010207%40gmail.com%3E > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If a single legal entity has the copyright, the entity makes a grant. > > If the code was built by a large community under the apache license, > > there's no one to make a grant. 'The community' expressing its desire > > to move to Apache is enough. This is an edge case of the principle > > that we only accept code when the copyright owner has a positive > > intent to contribute it; there's no way to test that for everyone who > > ever made a 2-line patch. Reference Subversion, I think. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Cédric Champeau > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> In the case of groovy, does Pivotal own it or does someone else own > it? > > > > > > Nobody owns it. > > > > > >> If > > >> I look at https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/master/NOTICE it > > >> indicates that an entity known as "The Groovy community" owns it, in > > which > > >> case the SGA should probably come from them, no? Or is "The Groovy > > >> community" not a legal entity? > > >> > > >> The Groovy community is not a legal entity. A lot of people > contributed > > to > > > Groovy already, and in the Groovy ecosystem, the community is a notion > > > larger than the language itself. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Groovy Project Manager > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+ > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> >
