proposal for software grant

[melissaa wilder <sn...@yahoo.com>]

I have prposal finished but for some odd reason I can't send.  I have been trying to for 30 minutes...I don't know what to do.  I am trying and of course I am the only one here at the time.   This is just great.

"Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net> wrote:
On Jan 28, 2004, at 10:21 PM, dion@multitask.com.au wrote:

> Martin van den Bemt wrote on 29/01/2004 02:02:05 AM:
>
>> The ASF is the copyright holder..
>
> Not exclusively. The original author also retains copyright to any 
> works
> as well, AFAIK.

That is technically correct, but irrelevant here.

When you take a file and grant ASF copyright to it, the copy that is 
granted is totally under the control of the ASF. The original author 
has no further rights to the ASF copy other than those granted by the 
ASL. Of course, the author still owns the copyright on the original, 
and can do with it what he/she pleases, including putting under a 
different license, making closed source, etc.

This is really important because it makes ownership of the 
ASF-distributed software clear - it's the ASF, and ASF only.

So we can upgrade the license of all ASF code w/o consulting the 
original author(s).

geir

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Geir Magnusson Jr 203-247-1713(m)
geir@4quarters.com


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