Hi Justin,
On 3 Sep 2021, at 0:46, Justin Mclean wrote:
Please help me understand why
- the software grant from Couchbase and
- the acceptance from the AsterixDB project
are not sufficient to approve this donation.
Because IMO the information provided doesn’t give sufficient detail
to determine who has contributed to the codebase, the history of
contributions has been hidden, the IP ownership of files can't really
be determined from what has been provided and previous questions by
the IPMC on this donation went unanswered.
On our "Contributor Agreements" page [1] we say:
"When an individual or corporation [in this case a corporation] decides
to donate a body of existing software or documentation to one of the
Apache projects, they need to execute a formal Software Grant Agreement
(SGA) with the ASF [which has been executed and recorded]. Typically,
they do this after negotiating approval with the ASF Incubator or one of
the PMCs [in this case the AsterixDB PMC], since the ASF does not accept
software unless there is a viable community available to support it as
part of a collaborative project."
The code has been developed by developers working for Couchbase and the
IP is owned by the corporation. Couchbase has executed the SGA and has
specified which code is contributed to the ASF under the terms of the
SGA. As the AsterixDB PMC has voted to accept the donation it seems that
all requirements to accept the donation are met.
Wasn't the SGA design for cases like this where a corporation (and not
an individual) contributes code to an Apache project?
On your questions:
Q: Where was this code original developed and who worked on it? There is
only a couple of commits in that repro, so it doesn’t seem to have
been developed there.
A: This code was originally developed by multiple developers working for
Couchbase. The names of current and former developers at Couchbase who
have worked on it (and who largely do not have an ICLA on file) seem to
be immaterial for the IP question as an SGA is recorded.
Q: Why does the code have ASF headers on it before being donated? Were
any 3rd party headers removed?
A: The repository with the Apache license headers was created with the
purpose of being donated to the ASF. Couchbase's copyright notices were
removed from the source files and corresponding NOTICE files were added.
ASF headers were added to files that did not have license headers and
regular Apache License headers were replaced with the ASF headers.
Q: Have all contributors signed ICLAs and/or do we have a SGA from
CouchBase?
A: A SGA has been executed and recorded. Not all contributors have
signed an ICLA, but that also seems immaterial as the SGA is available.
Regards,
Till
[1] https://www.apache.org/licenses/contributor-agreements.html#grants
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