Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> No, the ASF owns the code, as it was donated at time of submission.
>
> Stephen
As i read the CLA and the software grant agreement the ASF doesn't own
the code, it's just a license agreement and not a copyright transfert.
That means the ASF is granted by the copyright holder the right to
"reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly
perform, distribute and sublicense" the code, that's most of the rights
of the copyright holder except the right to register the work to the
Copyright Office and the right to claim copyright and sue for infringements.
I think it's interesting to compare this situation with the Mozilla
relicensing. While Netscape was entitled to relicense the work of its
employees (as the ASF is allowed to relicense the work of the
contributors who signed the CLA), they spent a significant time hunting
down every non-netscape contributor to request the permission to
relicense their code. IMHO the relicensing to the Apache License 2.0 is
a similar case.
Emmanuel Bourg
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