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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:43:23 -0800
From: Costin Manolache <costin@gmail.com>
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To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
Subject: Re: Corporate Contributions
Cc: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geirm@apache.org>, legal-discuss@apache.org
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:25:06 -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr.
<wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote:

> > That would have a significant adverse affect on a community, and could allow in certain circumstances, that employer to fork the project by licensing the employees work under a license we can't deal with, and letting the project continue under their control....
> 
> That employer could do so in any case.  They retain their own
> ownership and copyright even after granting rights to the ASF.
> 

Is this the case (i.e. both ASF and the contributor have ownership of
the code ) ? That's another piece of information where I heard
conflicting stories, and more vetted information would be useful.


Costin

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