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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-504) Spin code out to non-ASF
projects/contributors
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-504?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17002001#comment-17002001 ]
Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-504:
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The basic issues you should be concerned with are:
1) They must not remove the AL 2.0 license from the code authored by the project.
2) They must not misuse the Apache, Apache Solr, or other naming of the project (trademarks).
We would not give them a software grant; they can use said software under the Apache License 2.0.
They wouldn't remove the license headers. I would expect them to add their own license header while noting "Based on <Product>, originally licensed as follows: <our header>".
> Spin code out to non-ASF projects/contributors
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>
> Key: LEGAL-504
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-504
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Components: Policy Question
> Reporter: Cassandra Targett
> Priority: Major
>
> The Lucene PMC is discussing removing several features of Apache Solr and allowing various individual contributors to maintain them as non-official plugins. Others may come along after that point and fork the code to make variant plugins, or something else entirely.
> These contributors may not be current committers (and may never be), and some potential forks may choose to put their changes under a non-Apache-friendly license.
> Are there any legal issues we should be concerned about here? Would we be expected to give them a software grant (and if so, what would that look like)?
> We assume they would need to remove the license headers, are there other considerations?
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