On 11/20/15, 8:18 AM, "Roberta Marton" <roberta.mar...@esgyn.com> wrote:
>It looks like we have some copyright and licensing issue to resolved >before >completing our first release. So I am officially withdrawing our request >for our first Apache Trafodion release. We will take a look at all the >issues reported and submit a new package later. > Good luck. FWIW, at my company, the legal staff was highly interested in helping us get this right, had tools to help us get it right, and their response time was often quicker than this list and would be true legal advice instead of anecdotes from engineers who've survived the process. If you have such resources available to you it might speed up the process. They may not be able to advise on how to write the LICENSE and NOTICE files, but they could help you be more certain about which files need to be mentioned in LICENSE and NOTICE. The reason the company legal staff was interested was because the Software Grant had to be signed by a VP and needed to be as accurate as possible since the company didn't want to grant IP to the ASF and expose to the world in the ASF repos that it wasn't supposed to. Once you know who owns the various pieces and which ones have been granted vs are 3rd party, you can then make more sense of the ASF documents on how to document everything. The ASF has further rules on what 3rd party dependencies are allowed in various configurations. A company can grant software that the ASF cannot use "as-is" because it depends on 3rd party code with certain licenses. -Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
