Codebase IP Clearance Status
CouchDB Fauxton Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
Description
A group from the CouchDB user community has provided a significant amount of code for a new administration interface for CouchDB.
Project info
- The CouchDB PMC is responsible for this code/documentation.
- It will be incorporated into a the CouchDB git repository for integration.
- Officer or member managing donation: Jan Lehnardt (jan@apache.org)
Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (2013-02-06).
Identify the codebase
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2013-02-06 | Details recorded in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1664. The code is at https://github.com/cloudant-labs/couchdb/commits/fauxton commit c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80 A zipfile is provided at http://people.apache.org/~jan/ip/couchdb-fauxton-c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80.zip Signature: http://people.apache.org/~jan/ip/couchdb-fauxton-c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80.zip.sha |
| 2013-01-31 | No names/trademarks are applicable. |
| 2013-01-31 | Contributors to the code were asked to send in a CLA as per http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ip-clearance-template.html |
Copyright
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2013-02-06 | Done. Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. |
| 2013-02-06 | Done. Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project. |
Identify name recorded for software grant: couchdb-fauxton-c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80.zip Details recorded in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1664. The code is at https://github.com/cloudant-labs/couchdb/commits/fauxton commit c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80 A zipfile is provided at http://people.apache.org/~jan/ip/couchdb-fauxton-c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80.zip Signature: http://people.apache.org/~jan/ip/couchdb-fauxton-c31fa4bfb3448b04c9e5f27a656858e81d476e80.zip.sha
Verify distribution rights
Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:
For individuals, use the name as recorded on the committers page- Russell Branca Simon Metson Mike Wallace Garren Smith Volker Mische
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2013-02-06 | Done. Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record. |
| 2013-02-06 | Done. Remind active committers that they are responsible for ensuring that a Corporate CLA is recorded if such is required to authorize their contributions under their individual CLA. |
| 2013-02-06 | Done. Check and make sure that for all items included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute. |
| 2013-02-06 | Done. Check and make sure that all items depended upon by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms. |
Generally, the result of checking off these items will be a Software Grant, CLA, and Corporate CLA for ASF licensed code, which must have no dependencies upon items whose licenses that are incompatible with the Apache License.
Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project
Related VOTEs: The VOTE thread accepting the donation may happen either before or after IP clearance. Adoption by lazy concensus is acceptable but not recommended.