Hi, > 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. While that is generally the case, just because a company paid for code, does not always mean they own the copyright. It can depend on the employment contract, whether they were contractors or an unpaid intern, the country they are working in, and many other things.
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. > 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. Kind Regards, Justin 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
