From legal-discuss-return-7606-apmail-legal-discuss-archive=apache.org@apache.org Mon Aug 13 00:38:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B6A0974C for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2171 invoked by uid 500); 13 Aug 2012 00:38:08 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-legal-discuss-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 1940 invoked by uid 500); 13 Aug 2012 00:38:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact legal-discuss-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: Reply-To: legal-discuss@apache.org List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list legal-discuss@apache.org Received: (qmail 1933 invoked by uid 99); 13 Aug 2012 00:38:08 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:38:08 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.178 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.220.178] (HELO mail-vc0-f178.google.com) (209.85.220.178) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:38:03 +0000 Received: by vcbf13 with SMTP id f13so3937299vcb.23 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:37:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=bLoax5A59B9LsomaMFp3mS+aCzPdbfCvuBXUIE43CX0=; b=M1deNeK1rrqJU1xkaWcpLknloJYLPN6BAzVP7hJ6+BrgBtkteIP7JAUuxJ/VRbGy/4 e0X/3DoOtDlkQKp/NqMjYv5xBoLsS29YlBsK0RDFa5urHq6ZhIzfRUx7loxCFZPCrQ53 KRDZ+54fKxdkdG1bOjQWyRPv0J3ZEmKCG5eFIEUDNrsXicP+vYjuyzv7aqqaWFJG39Ob OpirGa7UbUzhz/02WlDzFQv/YYmx5tjAKYNXB9Cd56EkEcC/S2j2b9HResxZ75eAR1dN KbmR/wLnKfssXL6JYHup+BGqG7emYU2HjuT7PZxmTPNwPTauZC5N1QOmBTP04hrUzXuo +D5Q== Received: by 10.52.178.170 with SMTP id cz10mr6360008vdc.44.1344812228979; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:57:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.31.198 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:56:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Davis Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:56:28 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Importing Documentation under CC-3.0 license into CouchDB project To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Cc: legal-discuss@apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > Hi, > > The CouchDB project received a donation of API docs [docs] > and build tools from company CouchBase [jan1][mc2], > with our PMC (Jan Lehnardt) OK to proceed [jan3]. > > 1. The licence of contribution is CC-3.0A [mc4][cc5]. Is this > compatible? > > 2. As this is a substantial contribution, can you advise if there's > any special requirements prior to pushing this into the ASF > couchdb repo? Link on legal site [asf6] suggest this should > be OK with attribution [dch7]. > > Thanks, Dave > dch@apache.org > > [docs]: https://github.com/dch/couchdb/commit/6f64082f91ff33b4cf1d847974e353d275aa3889 > [jan1]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201106.mbox/%3CA5609C66-8D46-46E7-AFF3-73C2FBB5E574@apache.org%3E > [mc2]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201107.mbox/%3C35A99514-1B35-4B5A-AF53-9073DCE226C5@couchbase.com%3E > [jan3]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201202.mbox/%3CD09607BA-AD27-43BD-B5C8-00CAA687A447@apache.org%3E > > [mc4]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201202.mbox/%3CD04AEC0B-4C8E-43DF-8B0E-6290B9C12129@couchbase.com%3E > [cc5]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > [asf6]: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa > > [dch7]: https://github.com/dch/couchdb/blob/merge_docs/NOTICE#L77-91 I'll point out that a reason that we're wondering about compatibility is that we found a section in the legal docs that mentions CC license and specifically mentions not altering the imported work at [1]. The current plan in CouchDB to import these docs will be to pull the original XML (DocBook) sources that CouchBase created, translate them into a format for Sphinx (Python's plain text system) and then continue to edit/maintain them alongside the rest of CouchDB's sources. [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscribe@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-help@apache.org