[rules-dev] [rules-users] copyright violation issue on Drools

[Michael Neale]

So is the reason that there is a dispute over another copyright holder? (ie
these changes were copied in violation of that copyright in the first place)
- or a case of changing-minds about rights to the commits of the original
work? (if the latter then close the issue - nothing can or should be done -
as it is a licencing issue then, not a copyright issue, and as Mark says the
licence doesn't permit that revoking).



On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:

>  Yusuke,
>
> At the time of your contributions to Drools and other projects you were a
> Red Hat employee. The Red Hat legal department has determined that it has
> the right to copy, modify and distribute your contributions under the Apache
> License version 2.0 and considers this matter closed. If you have any
> further need to discuss this please do so with Red Hat legal, - you have
> their contact details.
>
> Even if you were not a Red Hat employee, which you were at the time, you
> cannot undo an OSS code contribution, that is not how OSS licensing works.
> At the time the code was contributed in good faith under the Apache license,
> you cannot then decide at a later date to change your mind. The OSS
> licenses, be it ASL or LGPL or GPL, are designed specifically to provide
> certainty in that area. Without this level of certainty end user OSS
> adoption would be a minefield as every time developers fall out, which
> happens often, one could demand all their code be removed and this would
> impact everyone who has invested time installing that software in production
> systems.
>
> Mark
>
> On 31/08/2010 17:41, 山本 裕介 wrote:
>
> I have consulted RH legal dept. only to get no meaningful response.
> I guess Edson is the one who commit most of these files.
> The how and why they need to be uncommitted is attached to the Jira issue.
>
>  Thanks,
> Yusuke
>
>   On Sep 1, 2010, at 1:34 AM, Mauricio Salatino wrote:
>
> Hi Yusuke, good question. I'm not sure where is the right place, but you
> are only asking to rollback your changes right?
> who commit all your contributions to the jboss repo?
> I also saw that you mention: "For several reasons, I decided to withdraw
> those contributions introduced from my spare time. "
> can you mention those reasons? so we, as community can learn why you want
> to remove your contributions. I'm just curious.
> Greetings.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:50 PM, 山本 裕介 <yamamoyu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Where is the appropriate forum for copyright issues?
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Greg Barton wrote:
>>
>> > This is not the appropriate forum for copyrighgt issues.
>> >
>> > GreG
>> >
>> > On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:40, 山本 裕介 <yamamoyu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > There's a copyright violation issue on Drools 5.1 release.
>> > Please remove the changes listed in the following issue.
>> > https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2660
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Yusuke
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