ORC-rust Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
Description
ORC-rust is the rust implementation to the Apache ORC format. It is being donated as a new repository within the Apache ORC project and contains a set of usable APIs for reading ORC format at present.
Project info
- The Apache ORC PMC will be responsible for the code
- It will be integrated into the Apache ORC project in a new repository
- Officer or member managing donation: Ruihang Xia (Apache DataFusion PMC member)
Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).
Identify the codebase
| date | item |
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| 2024-08-15 | Trademark search returned no results. |
Origin project is based on code from a community-developed datafusion-orc project at https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-orc.
Copyright
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2024-08-15 | 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. |
| 2024-08-15 | Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. |
| 2024-10-22 | ICLAs have been signed. See next section. |
Identify name recorded for software grant: N/A - the original code was developed by the DataFusion community and not by a company.
Verify distribution rights
The original code was developed using the Apache Software License 2.0
- For individuals, use the name as recorded on the committers page
| date | item |
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| 2024-10-22 | Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record. ICLAs have been signed by the following active committers (GitHub Id): Jefffrey, WenyXu, progval, waynexia, Xuanwo, klangner. |
| 2024-08-15 | 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. See https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-orc/issues/120#issuecomment-2291010689 |
| 2024-10-22 | 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. |
| 2024-10-22 | 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: https://lists.apache.org/thread/l6b0hsq29rr6to96tqmjpxt2mwz4nzbc
- The VOTE thread accepting the donation may happen either before or after IP clearance. Adoption by lazy concensus is acceptable but not recommended.