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[dsdp-pmc] RE: How to proceed with possible contribution to MTJ
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Title: How to proceed with possible contribution to MTJ
Hi Gustavo,
I think you got the steps right :-)
Only thing I'd not do is lie about who's the
author.
In terms of Copyright, the point only is: Who owns the
code, that is: Who has the right to contribute.
If everything was developed by MFoundry developers, then
MFoundry owns the code and has the right to contribute.
I do not think that Eclipse.org will ask for the entire
list of contributors in that case since it doesn't matter if MFoundry certifies
that they own everything.
In this case, proprietary code is easier than open source
-- in open source you'd really have to ask all original developers. Not so in
proprietary.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
Hi
martin,
Second email of the day
to you J sorry to ask you so many questions
Last week craig setera
talked to me about a possible contribution that the company he works for, mfoundry, might do to
MTJ. The contribution is the device database
that they have and also the solution to handle device
fragmentation. The only open
source solution that is currently available for that is GPL
(j2mepolish).
This is not yet closed
on their management team, but they want to clarify the steps that need to take
if they decide to do that.
The plan is to
contribute the release the code as EPL and contribute to
MTJ. But they dont want to join the eclipse
foundation and craig will continue to work on MTJ as
an individual. After that the
code would be maintained on MTJ SVN
My understanding was
that the usual contribution process can be followed (craig can be the author
of the code) and we need an agreement from craigs employer to contribute the code.
I would like
to check with if the steps I presented to him are ok:
1 - all code / data
must be released in a license compatible with EPL (mfoundry /
craig)
2 - open a bugzilla and
attach the contribution (mfoundry / craig)
3 - open the CQ (any mtj commiter)
4 - eclipse will request that we can identify the list of code
authors. and each code author must agree to release the code. since the code
copyright is from mfoundry, then probably you can just say that you were the
author (mfoundry / craig)
5 - we need an ok from mfoundry that the code can be contributed to
eclipse foundation (mfoundry / craig)
6 - all code and data will be scanned to make sure that there are no
legal issues (craig)
7 - after all fixes and justification, the code can be
committed (craig)
Thanks,
gustavo