From couchdb-dev-return-23-apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Fri Feb 22 04:48:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 56814 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2008 04:48:34 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 2008 04:48:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 27001 invoked by uid 500); 22 Feb 2008 04:48:29 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 26983 invoked by uid 500); 22 Feb 2008 04:48:29 -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 26974 invoked by uid 99); 22 Feb 2008 04:48:29 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:29 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [216.231.38.203] (HELO mail.sauria.com) (216.231.38.203) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:47:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (wall [127.0.0.1]) by mail.sauria.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A550ABFC0 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sauria.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wall.sauria.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kFfyQfsOWx7V for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.14] (unknown [192.168.0.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sauria.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF2BBF26 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:04 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <47BE01AA.8060005@apache.org> 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> <47BE01AA.8060005@apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <687DB3C2-9BCF-4959-BDF8-436A85C9651C@sauria.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ted Leung Subject: Re: Initial code drop Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:47:55 -0800 To: couchdb-dev@incubator.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > 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. > As long as we have everyone, and it sounds like we do, then this should be pretty easy to resolve. I'm not sure exactly of the mechanics - it may just be that the initial import is of a version with all the license headers changed to AL 2.0. I guess we need to ping legal-discuss about this... Ted