[Clirr-devel] Re: Change Clirr's License to ASL2

[Torsten C. <tc...@ap...>]

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to change Clirr's license from LGPL to Apache License  
> Version 2.

That's great news!

> I would still hold the copyright, just like today, and for the same  
> reason: I don't want to hunt down every contributor if there should  
> ever be a third version of the ASL.

Maybe have a read here

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/

IANAL but AFAIK assigning copyright to other people is not valid in  
all countries.
So be careful with that assumption. How it works in Apache is that  
committers have
to sign a CLA

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

So the committers still hold the copyright but grant the ASF  
basically the right to
do with the code whatever they want. I think that's pretty much what  
you are after.

In case you are after a clarification ...we have a legal-discuss  
mailing list at
Apache that could probably could give you a more correct(?) answer.

> As you other guys are all committers on one or more Apache project,  
> I assume that this is a very welcome improvement, but please speak  
> up if you have any concern about this change.

Sounds great to me! :)

cheers
--
Torsten