IP Clearance

[Lawrence Rosen]

Roy Fielding wrote:
> At Apache, all contributions are voluntary.  We do not accept code
> from copyright owners who don't want us to have it, even if we have
> the legal right to adopt it for other reasons.

Roy, I consider this to be a nice principle but not a good practice. If
someone licenses his work to the public under AL2 or a compatible license, I
don't care whether he likes ASF or not. He can kick and scream about the
unfairness of life, but I'm happy to take his work and do with it as I
please under the terms of his license.

/Larry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding at gbiv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:49 AM
> To: legal-discuss at apache.org
> Subject: Re: IP Clearance
> 
> At Apache, all contributions are voluntary.  We do not accept code
> from copyright owners who don't want us to have it, even if we have
> the legal right to adopt it for other reasons.
> 
> ....Roy
> 
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