Posted by
Jacopo Cappellato on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Dev-OFBiz-next-steps-tp166886.html
Hi all,
I think that now we have all the information necessary to start to
collect the iCLA from the OFBiz contributors past and present.
What are the next steps?
Here is a draft for this task:
1) send a mail to all the developers that in the past had commit
privileges in CVS/SVN to ask them to sign the iCLA to agree to donate
OFBiz to the ASF (any idea for the text of the email?)
2) add a message at the top of the OFBiz website with something like
this: "We are in the process of moving OFBiz codebase to the ASL 2.0; we
have already contacted all the main developers to sign an agreement
(iCLA) to express their willingness for this process; if you think you
are a developer but you have not been contacted by us, please send a
signed copy of the iCLA to us or contact us for further clarifications
and such within 30 (60?) days from now."
3) post a similar message to the mail lists (and maybe in Sourceforge
and java.net)
4) should we also contact also the authors listed in the OFBiz source files?
5) contact other persons if we know that have significantly contributed
to OFBiz: any ideas?
I think that we should ask them to post the signed iCLA by traditional
mail (to Undersun?).
Any comments?
Jacopo
PS: I don't want to be tedious but... I still am not so sure that asking
them to sign the iCLA will make a lot of sense... unless we clearly list
in the iCLA the software components that we will donate to the ASF;
something similar to the "ASF License grant"
(
http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt) used for IP
clearance: "List of software and other intellectual property covered by
this agreement:"
Ok... I know I'm boring!!! :-)
David E. Jones wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 9:26 AM, J Aaron Farr wrote:
>
>> On 2/13/06, Jacopo Cappellato <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> J Aaron,
>>>
>>> thanks for your feedback.
>>> Sorry but I still have some doubts about this:
>>>
>>> if a guy signs an iCLA in which he states that he agrees to release
>>> under the ASL all the work (present and future) that he sends to the ASF
>>> (thru mailing lists, Jira, SVN etc...), in which way this agreement will
>>> address the work that the guy did and donated in the past under a
>>> different licence and to a different project/community?
>>
>> Incubating OFBiz = present contribution.
>>
>> For former contributors, the purpose of the iCLA is to cover this
>> current contribution to the Incubator. While the contribution may be
>> in the past as far as OFBiz is concerned, it's in the present as far
>> as the ASF is concerned. In other words, the contributor is
>> re-contributing the code as part of the incubation grant.
>
> Yes, this makes sense. We are basically getting together as a big group
> of people who have written things for OFBiz and contributing them all to
> the ASF. This is the only way to do it as technically no single entity
> owns all of the OFBiz code.
>
> As far as picking on the term "present" goes it could be interpreted as
> the initial code contribution as J Aaron described, or the way I was
> thinking of it was that technically in licensing there is no "past" it
> is the present state of the work or a particular state of the work that
> is of concern.
>
> -David
>
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