Re: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing?

Right!

Apache doesn't want any copyrights. It just wants to sublicense and
create derivative works.

More information (and the ICLA) are located here:
  http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 21:17, Dennis E. Hamilton
<dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:
> Here's my sense of how they are different things:
>
> The ICLA is not a copyright assignment of any kind.  It is only a license and your affirmation 
> that you have the right to grant it.
>
> The OCA non-exclusively transfers a property right.  The license doesn't work that way.  My 
> understanding is that differences include what can be sold/transferred and who can sue someone 
> for infringement.
>
> With regard to copyright, the Apache ICLA is very much like the license that the terms of use for 
> the openoffice.org site assert that you are providing in making contributions on the site 
> (without having entered into any OCA).  That is not a copyright assignment either.  (Copyright 
> assignments *must* be made in writing in the United States.)
>
> The ICLA also stipulates a grant of Patent License.  (So does the OCA. Not a transfer, a license.)
>
> The ICLA also applies to contributions other than software.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friedrich Strohmaier [mailto:damokles4-listen@bits-fritz.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 17:15
> To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing?
>
> Hi Greg, *,
>
> sorry, forgot to post links..
>
> Friedrich Strohmaier schrieb:
>
> > I pull this in a new thread, as it is basic for understanding the
> > difference between OCA and ICLA.
>
> > Greg Stein schrieb:
>
> > [..]
>
> > > Let's also not forget that neither TDF nor the ASF require copyright
> > > assignment. The copyright remains with the contributor.
>
> > Same thing with OCA. You don't/didn't "sell" your copy right instead
> > it was shared.
>
> see here:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Joint_Copyright_Assignment
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Oracle_Contributor_Agreement
> http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#usinglicenses
> http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/oca.pdf
>
> [..]
>
> sorry for avoidable noise..
>
> Gruß/regards
> --
> Friedrich
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