Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-asf-public-internal@cust-asf2.ponee.io Delivered-To: archive-asf-public-internal@cust-asf2.ponee.io Received: from cust-asf.ponee.io (cust-asf.ponee.io [163.172.22.183]) by cust-asf2.ponee.io (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A07200C02 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:23:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by cust-asf.ponee.io (Postfix) id 5532D160B48; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by cust-asf.ponee.io (Postfix) with SMTP id C3DBF160B39 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:23:32 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 13644 invoked by uid 500); 20 Jan 2017 11:23:31 -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 13633 invoked by uid 99); 20 Jan 2017 11:23:31 -0000 Received: from mail-relay.apache.org (HELO mail-relay.apache.org) (140.211.11.15) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:23:31 +0000 Received: from Prometheus2.local (unknown [193.104.215.11]) by mail-relay.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mail-relay.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id C13C61A04E2 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:23:30 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Writing spec code for the OSGi Alliance within the ASF To: legal-discuss@apache.org References: From: Carsten Ziegeler Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:23:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit archived-at: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:23:33 -0000 There is no need to read the thread as it has nothing to do with the legal question Thanks Carsten Bertrand Delacretaz wrote > Hi Guillaume, > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Guillaume Nodet wrote: >> ...In some cases people are writing code inside the ASF as part of spec work >> for the OSGi Alliance. The code written is copyrighted to the OSGi Alliance >> and supposed to be made available through a specific license [1].... > > I don't understand - if code is contributed to an ASF project that's > automatically under Apache License, with a copyright license to the > ASF. > > My understanding is that the author retains rights to their > contribution, so they can also contribute it elsewhere if they want, > as long as our trademarks are respected. > > Does that help? > > (I didn't read the in reverse thread quoted long) > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscribe@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-help@apache.org > > -- Carsten Ziegeler Adobe Research Switzerland cziegeler@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscribe@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-help@apache.org