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From Leo Simons <m...@leosimons.com>
Subject Re: Legal issues with importing existing codebases
Date Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:20:37 GMT
On Dec 10, 2006, at 9:56 AM, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
>> On 12/8/06, Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> > For #2, if you filed a CLA for whatever project you were first  
>> involved
>> > in apache, you're covered.
>> >
>> > In the unlikely event that we don't have a CLA from you, then we  
>> might
>> > have a problem. But if not, the CLA covers that.
>> >
>> > Meaning that if you commit stuff you don't own, and somebody  
>> comes after
>> > us, you (and not the ASF or this project) are to blame.
>>
>> No worries there, I have a CLA, and all the code is mine.
>
> it's going to be a little more interesting for composite codebases
> even if all the code was created by apache committers: it's not clear
> to me that the CLA for the committer applies for code that was
> contributed to a third party project.
>
> so perhaps the standard incubator import process for projects would be
> best practice for all composite codebases...

For reference, anywhere you consider you may need a code grant, or a  
codebase has multiple authors, or anything is less obvious than  
simply-CLA-covered, just go through

   http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html

which is not really incubator-specific but something all PMCs have to  
comply with (board resolution about that somewhere I believe). It's  
really simple (fill out XML template, check in template) and involves  
lazy consensus.

/LSD


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