[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [net] FTPS submission - legal issues]]

[Steve Cohen <sc...@javactivity.org>]

Cliff, can you or someone else on this list explain what a Software 
Grant is?  Is there a form for it?

Thank you.


Cliff Schmidt wrote:
> On 1/22/06, Steve Cohen <sc...@javactivity.org> wrote:
> 
>>On 1/22/06, Steve Cohen <st...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Josejuan Montiel (josejuan.montiel@gmail.com) has submitted some code
>>>that would implement an FTPS protocol as an addition to commons-net.
>>>This submission takes the form of a patch submitted as a bug via
>>>http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38309.  Apparently
>>>this code was submitted as part of an existing project under SourceForge (
>>>
>>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufsc).  That project was originally under the LGPL, although its owner, Paul Ferraro has apparently agreed to switch it to the Apache
>>>License.
>>>
>>>Can some of the licensing gurus comment on this, and provide feedback?  I would like to see this happen if it's possible.  However, Mr. Montiel has more work to do before
>>>the team would accept the submission, and I am reluctant to suggest that he do it if some licensing issue that I am not aware of would kill the idea.
> 
> 
> If Paul Ferraro is the sole copyright owner of all the code of
> interest, then there shouldn't be a problem.  Assumuning this is the
> case, the next question is whether the code is to be hacked on going
> forward within the Jakarta Commons community or whether it is just
> being dropped into some external/third-party directory.  If the
> former, then Paul should sign a Software Grant.  If the latter, Paul
> should simply create a new release of the code explicitly licensed
> under the Apache License, and the the Jakarta PMC can choose to allow
> that to be included in the Jakarta Commons distribution.
> 
> Cliff
> 
> 
> 
>>>
>>>Additionally. the submission depends on classes in the com.sun.net.ssl
>>>package.  Are these legal imports for jakarta?
>>>
>>>Steve Cohen
>>>
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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [net] FTPS submission - legal issues]]

[Sam Ruby <ru...@apache.org>]

Steve Cohen wrote:
> 
> Cliff, can you or someone else on this list explain what a Software
> Grant is?  Is there a form for it?

Look at the bottom of the following two pages:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/
http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/

- Sam Ruby

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