Creating a Library to be donated to Apache

[Avi Kessner <ak...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
I've been inspired to create a utility library for regular expressions and
making them easier to read/write.

I believe that when I get it all up and running I would like to donate it
to Flex.

My question is about licensing.  I will be making the project on Github,
and was wondering if I should use an MIT license or an Apache v2 license,
or if there is another way to go about doing it?


Just in case I made someone curious, the idea is to create a library to
answer my own question here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21528969/is-there-a-library-for-regular-expressions-similar-to-what-hamcrest-did-for-unit?noredirect=1#comment32509472_21528969

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Re: Creating a Library to be donated to Apache

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

On 2/5/14 2:01 AM, "Justin Mclean" <ju...@classsoftware.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>> Should I put the ICLA in the repo and have people sign it before they
>> contribute? Or is that premature?
>
>Totally up to you. I'd just make it clear up front that you want to
>donate to Apache - less complications that way.
It would be best if by submitting code to GH, folks are accepting those
terms, but that may be hard to do.  The goal is to avoid anyone saying
later that they didn't give up ownership of the lines of code they
donated, or didn't give permission for it to be donated.

FWIW, licensing as Apache now means the licensing terms don't have to be
changed in the donation process.

-Alex

Re: Creating a Library to be donated to Apache

[Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>]

Hi,

> Should I put the ICLA in the repo and have people sign it before they
> contribute? Or is that premature?

Totally up to you. I'd just make it clear up front that you want to donate to Apache - less complications that way.

Thanks,
Justin

Re: Creating a Library to be donated to Apache

[Avi Kessner <ak...@gmail.com>]

Should I put the ICLA in the repo and have people sign it before they
contribute? Or is that premature?

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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Nice idea and would be a useful donation.
>
> > My question is about licensing.  I will be making the project on Github,
> > and was wondering if I should use an MIT license or an Apache v2 license,
> > or if there is another way to go about doing it?
>
> Both MIT and Apache (obviously) are compatible Category A licences [1] so
> no issues there - you can use either.
>
> However putting it up on GitHub you would need to get all major
> contributors to sign a ICLA [2] before it could be donated - that may be a
> bit tricky depending on the timeframe/people involved.
>
> Of course it still can be a very useful project even if it isn't
> donated/park of the SDK.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
> 1. https://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
> 2. http://www.apache.org/licenses/

Re: Creating a Library to be donated to Apache

[Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>]

Hi,

Nice idea and would be a useful donation.

> My question is about licensing.  I will be making the project on Github,
> and was wondering if I should use an MIT license or an Apache v2 license,
> or if there is another way to go about doing it?

Both MIT and Apache (obviously) are compatible Category A licences [1] so no issues there - you can use either.

However putting it up on GitHub you would need to get all major contributors to sign a ICLA [2] before it could be donated - that may be a bit tricky depending on the timeframe/people involved.

Of course it still can be a very useful project even if it isn't donated/park of the SDK.

Thanks,
Justin

1. https://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
2. http://www.apache.org/licenses/