From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B268858CF for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:50:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 555A13D95A; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 18:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-41-137.bos.redhat.com (ovpn-116-212.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.116.212]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uB1IoYGt007223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:50:35 -0500 To: "O'Driscoll, Tim" , Michael Dolan , "moving@dpdk.org" References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA67626AEE@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA676277F4@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <58406EC0.7000904@redhat.com> From: Dave Neary Message-ID: <584070FA.30606@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:50:34 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <58406EC0.7000904@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.27 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-moving] Minutes from "Moving DPDK to Linux Foundation" call, November 29th X-BeenThere: moving@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK community structure changes List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:50:37 -0000 On 12/01/2016 01:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote: >> Note that I’m assuming that the combination of Apache 2 and a CLA isn't an option because this seems redundant as both include patent protection. Maybe there are other reasons that would make this a valid combination though. > > The Apache Software Foundation requires CLAs with copyright assignment > to the foundation for official Apache projects - this is to allow for > future license changes (an Apache v3 license), and also reflects some of > the difficulties of a 30 year old project (several of the original > copyright holders are no longer with the project, or have died, and the > succession rights for copyright materials can sometimes result in > unfortunate conflicts between the estates and open source projects). A small but important correction: The ASF CLA is a grant of a broad copyright license which allows, among other things, the ASF to redistribute the software under a different license. It is not a copyright assignment. Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338