Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Brian Minchau wrote:

> My understanding is that Sun is signing a CCLA for their contribution 
> of
> JAXP 1.3.

yes.  it's really a software grant, in effect.

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> I presume that like any code, the JAXP 1.3 code will have bugs, and 
> will
> develop over time, and will need fixes by someone. In the short term 
> that
> would most likely be Sun employees.  As a Xalan PMC member it is my
> responsibility to verify the pedigree of contributions before accepting
> changes into the code base.
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> Are individual people listed in the CCLA that Sun is signing?

No.

> If so, then
> how can I find out who is listed, so that I can feel more confident 
> about
> accepting further contributions. Looking at
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt I don't think that
> individuals are listed.

yes, there's a bit of a mess there (need to fix the site).  Sun signed 
the same CCLA that IBM signed for Derby, which is a CCLA and 
simultaneous grant.  So they are using it for the grant part.

>
>   Also, in the past there seems to be some code that was contributed to
> Apache by Sun employees who were committers, but who have never signed 
> a
> CLA. I think that at that time CCLAs did not exist. So I find the 
> phrase in
> the CCLA most interesting:
>    "Your "Contributions" means all of your past, present and future
> contributions ..."
>
>> From reading that CCLA form it looks like all past, present and future
> contributions of all Sun employees have their licensing rights given 
> to the
> ASF, unless the contributions were donated with "Not a contribution" or
> some other conspicuous, but similar phrase.  If this is true then I 
> feel
> better about past contributions by people who were Sun employees at 
> that
> time, and who have never signed a CLA.

There are no people listed.  I'll be happy to fax you a copy if that 
helps.  IBM legal has the document - it's the same that they used for 
Derby and the recent JSR-105 contribution.

geir

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> Excellent news!  Thank to Sun folk and Geir for picking up the ball on
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> Note: once the papers are in the Hallowed Halls, I presume that Neeraj
> will get some consensus from xml-commons, xalan-dev, and xerces-j-dev 
> as
> to how to actually check this in?  I'm presuming you have someone with
> commit access to xml-commons, which is the pre-existing home for JAXP.
> (Although incubator should check the legal issues, I don't think the
> code needs to checkin thru there).
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> But I know Xerces and Xalan may have specific dependencies on
> xml-commons code, so we probably need to branch to allow current
> versions to work as-is and let them plan new versions with 1.3 support.
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> - Shane
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> Neeraj Bajaj wrote:
>> xml-common, xerces & xalan communities,
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>> I have learnt that legal issues regarding donation has been resolved 
>> and
>> latest version of CCLA has been signed.
>> So would like to make the actual code grant of JAXP 1.3 APIs +
>> implementation ASAP. I will start the preparation
>> today and will be back with actual code grant with in 2 days.
>>
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>> Best Regards,
>>
>> - Neeraj
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