From couchdb-dev-return-22-apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Thu Feb 21 22:57:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 21697 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2008 22:57:12 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 21 Feb 2008 22:57:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 45890 invoked by uid 500); 21 Feb 2008 22:57:06 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 45863 invoked by uid 500); 21 Feb 2008 22:57:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact couchdb-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 45837 invoked by uid 99); 21 Feb 2008 22:57:06 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:57:06 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [68.142.198.204] (HELO smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.198.204) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:56:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 37559 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2008 22:56:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.254.144?) (ddebrunner@sbcglobal.net@67.116.253.30 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Feb 2008 22:56:40 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: QTwkW9EVM1n1MeizQBjTyQgFTILGXWuFyFXqwIoK36RZdpyitR4BbuU92goI7wPn7Iip8vWRjg-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <47BE01AA.8060005@apache.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:56:42 -0800 From: Daniel John Debrunner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Initial code drop References: <7E3B0345-4692-4DBF-80DB-25BA62149EA2@gmx.de> <47BCDB83.3050607@apache.org> <20080221061610.GH4754@bytesexual.org> <6DD766A3-E41A-4618-BD6D-9EAC64F50046@sauria.com> <03199FF9-CA46-4CA7-B267-BB9961E14825@gmx.de> <29F13012-9CF3-492B-A917-B3D0A61E8BC7@gmx.de> <47BDE6EB.5050306@apache.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Jan Lehnardt wrote: > On Feb 21, 2008, at 22:02, Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > >> Christopher Lenz wrote: >> >>>> So IIUC one prerequesite to getting the code into the Apache >>>> repository is having CLAs on file for all contributors? How do we >>>> know what the status is in that respect? >> >> Has anyone checked the status of the switch from GPL to ALv2? >> >> I found the announcement (link below) but not a lot beyond that. Were >> all the original authors contacted for the licence change or was there >> some form of copyright assignment to "couchddb"? > > Damien Katz is the sole author of CouchDB, Noah Slater's work is the > build system and Christopher Lenz developed the administration > interface. I contributed the initial Lucene part of the fulltext search > and some minor things. We all were aware of the License change and > informally agreed to assign any copyright to Damien. I don't know if > that is sufficient for the situation but that's how it stands :-) Not sure of the legal details, but having a small number of existing contributors and they are all involved here (right?) should make it easy to resolve. Dan.