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<h2 id='Codebase+IP+Clearance+Status'><img src="../images/redarrow.gif" />Codebase IP Clearance Status</h2>
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<h2 id='CouchDB+Codebase+Intellectual+Property+%28IP%29+Clearance+Status'><img src="../images/redarrow.gif" />CouchDB BigCouch Updates Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status</h2>
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<h2 id='Description'><img src="../images/redarrow.gif" />Description</h2>
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<p>Cloudant have enhanced BigCouch and are donating those enhancements to
the CouchDB project. Cloudant will switch active development to ASF infrastructure
after this donation, we do not intend to remain outside of the
normal ASF contribution workflow after this update.</p>
<p>This consists of several new erlang applications and significant improvements and fixes
to the core CouchDB code</p>
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<li>The CouchDB PMC is responsible for this code/documentation.</li>
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<li>It will be incorporated into the CouchDB git repositories.</li>
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<li>Officer or member managing donation: Robert Newson (rnewson@apache.org)</li>
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<em>Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).</em>
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<h3 id='Identify+the+codebase'>Identify the codebase</h3>
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<td>2014-07-17</td>
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The donation is stored at
https://people.apache.org/~rnewson/dist/windsor-merge.tar.gz
in the form of a series of patch files to be replayed
against ASF git repositories.
A GPG signature is stored at
https://people.apache.org/~rnewson/dist/windsor-merge.tar.gz.sig
Signature of tarball (SHA-256): 703334acfd5facfb2150ce4366fe5a47b464d040c648064912de86468c157f23
Signature of tarball (SHA-1): 499b876918c2bd275dcdcdd173bacb814a535d76
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<td>2014-07-26</td>
<td>Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to
the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer
rights for the package, the core code, and any new code
produced by the project.</td>
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<td>2014-07-17</td>
<td>Check and make sure that the files that have been donated
have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.
The series of patches includes patches to apply ASF
copyright headers to all relevant files.
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Identify name recorded for software grant: <em>grant via Schedule B of Cloudant's updated CCLA;
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/documents/cclas/cloudant-an-ibm-company.pdf</em>
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<h4 id='Verify+distribution+rights'>Verify distribution rights</h4>
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Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights: Cloudant, an IBM company
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<td>2014-07-17</td>
<td>Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on
record.</td>
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<td>2014-07-17</td>
<td>Remind active committers that they are responsible for
ensuring that a Corporate CLA is recorded if such is
required to authorize their contributions under their
individual CLA.</td>
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<td>2014-07-17</td>
<td>Check and make sure that for all items included with the
distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have
the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and
redistribute.</td>
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<td>2014-07-17</td>
<td>Check and make sure that all items depended upon by the
project is covered by one or more of the following approved
licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or
something with essentially the same terms.</td>
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<p>Generally, the result of checking off these items will be a
Software Grant, CLA, and Corporate CLA for ASF licensed code,
which must have no dependencies upon items whose licenses that
are incompatible with the Apache License.</p>
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<h3 id='Organizational+acceptance+of+responsibility+for+the+project'>Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project
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Related VOTEs: PASSED
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<li>IP clearance vote: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201407.mbox/%3CBF1A4435-BDFD-45EB-B76D-FA44ABC1BCB0@apache.org%3E</li>
<li>CouchDB PMC acceptance vote: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201407.mbox/%3CF224C2F8-1771-4D56-B2E8-15A1B66E74C9@apache.org%3E</li>
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