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Jakarta Commons CSV Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status

Description

Implementation of a CSV (Comma Separated Values) parser in Java.

Project info

  • Which PMC will be responsible for the code: Jakarta
  • Into which existing project/module: Jakarta Commons
  • Officer or member managing donation: Henri Yandell (bayard@apache.org)

Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the codebase

date item
not applicable If applicable, make sure that any associated name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product.

MD5 sum for donated software: aaa5ffe2c1413ed1ece266663a4764f8 (OpenSSL 0.9.7d).

date item
2005-12-12 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.
2005-12-16 Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Identify name recorded for software grant:

Netcetera AG / Joachim Hagger, CTO
   "CSV parsing and printing software including test and build
    files (all delivered as source code). The file contributed is
    found at:
      ftp:ftp.netcetera.ch/pub/csvparser.jar
    Dated 2005-06-05, 10:42:00, size 42KB"      

Verify distribution rights

Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:

  • Netcetera AG. (Our contact: Stefan Rufer (stefan.rufer@netcetera.ch))
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not applicable Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record.
not applicable 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.
not applicable 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.
not applicable 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