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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by Jason Davies <ja...@jasondavies.com> on 2009/08/11 10:13:50 UTC

Re: Do all third-party dependencies require software grant agreements?

Hi Niclas,

On 11 Aug 2009, at 09:11, Niclas Hedhman wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jason Davies<ja...@jasondavies.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> As our intention is not to fork this dependency, I assume we do not  
>> require
>> it to go through IP clearance?  If required we could easily  
>> maintain a patch
>> in SVN that gets applied to a clean copy of the upstream code on  
>> building
>> it.
>
> Yes, I think this is reasonable...

Sorry, do you mean we *should* maintain a separate patch that is  
applied at build time, or are you just responding to the question  
about IP clearance?  I should really have split those into separate  
paragraphs :-)
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Jason Davies

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Re: Do all third-party dependencies require software grant agreements?

Posted by Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Jason Davies<ja...@jasondavies.com> wrote:

>> Yes, I think this is reasonable...
>
> Sorry, do you mean we *should* maintain a separate patch that is applied at
> build time, or are you just responding to the question about IP clearance?
>  I should really have split those into separate paragraphs :-)

Yes to both. *should* as I wouldn't call it a *must*, and "Yes, no
need for IP clearance"

IANAL
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