On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Adrian Wiesmann <awiesman..omap.org> wrote:
>> The technicaly easiest solution would be if Cayenne agrees in our
>> project
>> taking exlusively (and only for our SOBF Tool) the data view
>> source code
>> (and dvmodeler) and relicence it under the GPL. With the condition
>> that we
>> dual-licence everything we do on the DataViews under the ASL. Like
>> that we
>> could integrate everything without the need to have a separate lib.
>
> It's not quite as easy as you'd think. You have to find everyone who
> ever worked on the DataViews code, and individually get them to
> relicense the code to you. The Cayenne project (nor the ASF) cannot
> relicense the code as we don't have the right to do that. Both the
> project and ASF can only use the code as it was licensed to them by
> the individuals involved.
That's a good explanation of how things work.
>> Do the licence requirements concerning the written CLA apply when
>> submitting back to Cayenne or before? And only if we don't fork?
>
> Not sure what you're asking here, but when you grant code to ASF, all
> you're doing is saying that ASF has the right to continue using the
> code under the Apache license. You still own the code and can
> relicense it under GPL to another legal entity if you want to do that.
Yep, the CLA applies to the submissions of the code that you own and
want to contribute to Apache.
Andrus
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