[Go-essp-tech] Gateway open source license

[Roland Schweitzer]

Thank Nate.  Could you send out the CLA to the list or to me?

Roland

On 05/19/2011 11:09 PM, Nathan Wilhelmi wrote:
> Hi Colleagues,
>
> Back in April we announced the 1.3-M4 release of the gateway, including
> mention that the Apache 2.0 license had been applied to the codebase.
> Not everyone noticed that, so we summarized that at the GO-ESSP event
> last week and wanted to note it here as well.
>
> It was a surprising amount of work to get this done. We considered
> various open source models and licenses, working with our legal counsel
> throughout the process. This resulted in having to review 130+ third
> party code licenses for distribution/usage rights and license
> compatibility. We had to replace a few components along the way. At this
> point, we feel confident that due diligence has been done.
>
> As many of you are probably aware research institutions are coming under
> increased scrutiny for export control compliance. NCAR is no exception,
> during this process we also had to go through an export control review
> as the code contained encryption libraries.
>
> Much has been drawn from the Apache Foundation, including the
> development of a simplified Contributor License Agreement (CLA). There
> have been a few questions about this, so I wanted to explain a bit. It
> basically protects and benefits all parties as well as the community
> code. It ensures that contributions from multiple organizations can be
> modified as needed and distributed to the community. It also removes the
> need for a contributor to assign copyright to another organization.
> Instead, the contributor simply provides permission to include their
> contribution while retaining copyright _and_ the right to use the
> contribution for their own purposes freely. Again, thanks to Apache for
> this nice instrument.
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.
>
> Thanks!
> -Nate
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