Hi Justin, > All contributors were employed by OpenClovis, which means the company paid > > them for their code, so the Intellectual Property Rights in this case > must > > belong to the company. > > Looking at the contributors here [1], I see some are not part of the Open > Clovis organisation. However, I don't know their employment history with > Open Clovis. Your initial committer list includes all Open Clovis people > except one - Thang Bui; their LinkedIn employment history doesn’t list them > as working for Open Clovis. The proposal lists 17 people who have > contributed to the project 4 more than listed in that repo. So it seems > there is a little missing information here. > Some people were not employees of OpenClovis. They were from the second company who had an outsourcing contract with OpenClovis actually. The fact that 17 people listed is my fault: I listed the people who contributed for other projects. I should have listed the people contributed for this project only. And yes, the actual ones should be shown in the github graph.
> > > So, I wonder why you need to ask them for the licence change > arrangement? Can you clarify this? > > GPL code is not allowed to be included in an ASF product. To change the > license, you need permission from all of the copyright owners. Without > documentation of that, it may be a little difficult to accept the project > into the Incubator. > In case some people left the project for a long time and we cannot reach them, so, how can we talk with them about the licence change? Thanks. > > > 1. > https://github.com/OpenClovis/SAFplus-Availability-Scalability-Platform/graphs/contributors > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
