[MENTORS] CCLAs and Software Grants for LLC's? (was Re: Kick starter)

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

Hi Mentors,

My mental model of the rules say that if a corporation owns a copyright, we
need a CCLA covering the contributor and donations should have a software
grant.  But what about LLCs?  Especially one-person LLCs?

Thanks,
-Alex

On 11/14/12 11:00 AM, "Jeffry Houser" <je...@dot-com-it.com> wrote:

> On 11/14/2012 1:02 PM, Alex Harui wrote:
>> @Jeffry, If someone hooked up the autocomplete logic to a proprietary
>> natural language processing library, that would probably be a problem, but I
>> doubt that will be the case.
> 
>   AutoComplete functionality is currently exposed via a filterFunction
> property; which works just like the filterFunction on an
> ArrayCollection.  The default filterFunction we provide uses regex.
> 
>> What I am concerned about, though, is that it
>> is based on your Flextras Autocomplete, so I think that means you/we have to
>> make sure the copyrights are handled correctly and proper paperwork is filed
>> for any code copyrighted to a legal entity other than you.  Are the
>> copyrights in the existing code to Jeffry Houser or some other entity that
>> you control?
> 
>   Technically the copyrights are owned by DotComIt, LLC which happens to
> be a single person company owned by me.
>   My intent was to just add the Apache headers to the code and commit
> them to my whiteboard.  My intuition is that this will not be a "huge"
> code base.  But, if necessary I can fill out a formal software grant.

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Re: [MENTORS] CCLAs and Software Grants for LLC's? (was Re: Kick starter)

[Jeffry Houser <je...@dot-com-it.com>]

On 11/14/2012 2:17 PM, Alex Harui wrote:
> Hi Mentors,
>
> My mental model of the rules say that if a corporation owns a copyright, we
> need a CCLA covering the contributor and
   DotComIt already has a CCLA filed with Apache.  It was filed the same 
time I filed my Individual CLA.
  So the only remaining item is whether or not the software grant is 
needed.

> donations should have a software
> grant.  But what about LLCs?  Especially one-person LLCs?

Re: [MENTORS] CCLAs and Software Grants for LLC's? (was Re: Kick starter)

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com> wrote:
> ...My mental model of the rules say that if a corporation owns a copyright, we
> need a CCLA covering the contributor and donations should have a software
> grant.  But what about LLCs?  Especially one-person LLCs?...

Whoever commits code does that under their
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt - paragraphs 4. and 5. apply
here.

The CCLA makes no difference to that, it's just something between a
company and their employees.

-Bertrand