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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:31:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Tim Williams (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Tim Williams commented on LEGAL-93:
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I like the idea of the FAQ, but it seems much more complicated than that.  In many (most?) cases, the creator of the code is not a federal employee but rather under contract to the federal government.  The wide variance is number of contract vehicles, subs, and flow-down T&C's make it hard for a single A, no?

> Contributions from the US Federal Goverment
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-93
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-93
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>
> Some folks who work for the US federal government want to contribute a codebase to Apache, through the Incubator.  The US government is not permitted to claim copyright over works it creates.  The Incubator requires a CCLA or Software Grant for codebases brought to Apache.  Both of these forms require that the author grant a copyright license to Apache, but I don't see how this is possible when the author is the US Government, which does not hold copyright.  What's our process in this case?
> Similarly, how can an employee of the US Federal Government file an ICLA, since that also requires a grant of copyright license?

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