Re: [fielding@apache.org: Review of proposed Apache License, version 2.0]
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:39, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:22:39PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> > Brian M. Carlson said on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:39:29AM +0000,:
> >
> > > I'm not sure that this is even legal, at least in the US.
> >
> > Will you please clarify why??
>
> I'm assuming you meant the copyright assignment statement, and
> certainly, I will clarify. According to David Turner, IIRC, it requires
> written paperwork for copyright assignment. Debian, though, usually
> accepts emails as well, but not licenses that have default assignments.
> This was a big deal with ReiserFS (search the archives for more info).
The proposed Apache licensed doesn't do copyright assignment -- it does
licensing. That's an entirely different matter.
I'm not jumping into this discussion, just pointing out that what I
might have said might have been confusing :)
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-Dave Turner
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