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IP clearance question

Hello,

I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix.

The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which 
is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by 
Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor classes depend on this 
JAR and it could be easily removed from Sigil with very minor impact.

So, the question I have is, do we need them to submit a new archive that 
doesn't contain this code or is it sufficient for us to strip this code 
before importing the contributed code to SVN?

Thanks.

-> richard

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Re: IP clearance question

Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
On 7/6/09 5:49 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Richard S. Hall<he...@ungoverned.org>  wrote:
>    
>> Follow up question, I assume our vote to accept the contribution is still
>> acceptable as well as the software grant from Paremus. So, the only
>> necessary action is to have Paremus submit a new, Apache compatible archive.
>> Is that correct?
>>      
>
> IMHO the vote, yes and - providing that it doesn't include a checksum
> - the grant should be ok too
>    

There was no checksum mentioned in the grant, just a project 
description. So, I guess we are fine with a new archive.

-> richard

> - robert
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Re: IP clearance question

Posted by Robert Burrell Donkin <ro...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Richard S. Hall<he...@ungoverned.org> wrote:
> Follow up question, I assume our vote to accept the contribution is still
> acceptable as well as the software grant from Paremus. So, the only
> necessary action is to have Paremus submit a new, Apache compatible archive.
> Is that correct?

IMHO the vote, yes and - providing that it doesn't include a checksum
- the grant should be ok too

- robert

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Re: IP clearance question

Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
Follow up question, I assume our vote to accept the contribution is 
still acceptable as well as the software grant from Paremus. So, the 
only necessary action is to have Paremus submit a new, Apache compatible 
archive. Is that correct?

-> richard

On 7/6/09 12:52 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote:
> Ok, thanks.
>
> -> richard
>
> On 7/6/09 12:50 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>> Richard S. Hall wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix.
>>>
>>> The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which
>>> is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by
>>> Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor classes depend on this
>>> JAR and it could be easily removed from Sigil with very minor impact.
>>>
>>> So, the question I have is, do we need them to submit a new archive 
>>> that
>>> doesn't contain this code or is it sufficient for us to strip this code
>>> before importing the contributed code to SVN?
>>
>> GPL [AGPL] is viral.  The entire archive is copyleft.
>>
>> You need clear AL 2.0 submission by the original authors, with no pieces
>> of GPL code whatsoever.
>>
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Re: IP clearance question

Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
Ok, thanks.

-> richard

On 7/6/09 12:50 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Richard S. Hall wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix.
>>
>> The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which
>> is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by
>> Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor classes depend on this
>> JAR and it could be easily removed from Sigil with very minor impact.
>>
>> So, the question I have is, do we need them to submit a new archive that
>> doesn't contain this code or is it sufficient for us to strip this code
>> before importing the contributed code to SVN?
>>      
>
> GPL [AGPL] is viral.  The entire archive is copyleft.
>
> You need clear AL 2.0 submission by the original authors, with no pieces
> of GPL code whatsoever.
>
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Re: IP clearance question

Posted by "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>.
Richard S. Hall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to perform IP clearance on the Sigil project to Felix.
> 
> The contributed archive contains some embedded JAR files, one of which
> is covered by AGPL, which is a modified version of GPL. I am told by
> Paremus (the contributors) that only two minor classes depend on this
> JAR and it could be easily removed from Sigil with very minor impact.
> 
> So, the question I have is, do we need them to submit a new archive that
> doesn't contain this code or is it sufficient for us to strip this code
> before importing the contributed code to SVN?

GPL [AGPL] is viral.  The entire archive is copyleft.

You need clear AL 2.0 submission by the original authors, with no pieces
of GPL code whatsoever.

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