Title: Commons RDF Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status

Commons RDF is a library which provides a set of interfaces for the RDF 1.1 concepts that can be used to expose common RDF 1.1 concepts using common Java interfaces. The goal is to provide agreed and clear interfaces that could be implemented by the upcoming versions of the main Java toolkits (Apache Jena 3.0 and OpenRDF Sesame 4.0) as well as reused by existing wrappers.

  • Which PMC will be responsible for the code: Apache Commons

  • Into which existing project/module: Apache Commons Sanbox

  • Officer or member managing donation: @@TODO@@

Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the codebase

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2015-03-26No evidences of registration of the trademark for an existing software product have been found.
2015-03-27Attached to COMMONSRDF-1 as commons-rdf.bundle a bundle containing the master branch at github ( https://github.com/commons-rdf/commons-rdf/tree/master by 2015-03-28 (tagged as apache-import-20150327 ). Software Grant Agreement signed and archived by ASF Secretary.

MD5 sum for donated software: 84095aae6d752b864e10181ec78ed299 .

Copyright

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2015-03-26Code was developed by Sergio Fernández (Apache ID wikier), Andy Seaborne (andy), Peter Ansell (ansell) and Stian Soiland-Reyes (stain), who already are all ASF committers and have both ICLA and CCLA with effect when the code was developed.
2015-03-29All code files now have standard ASF headers, license headers added to other relevant files (POMs, XML etc). RAT report is clean.

Identify name recorded for software grant: n/a.

Verify distribution rights

Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:

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2015-03-26All committers have an ICLA on file
2015-03-26All committers have an a CCLA on file that names him and has agreed to donate the code to the Apache Commons under the existing ICLA and CCLA
2015-03-26There is no non-Apache licensed code present in the donated software
2015-03-26All dependencies are other Apache projects or open source projects compatible with the Apache License

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

Related VOTEs: n/a.

The original donation discussion can be found at the thread http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201407.mbox/%3C53CCEA51.9070801%40apache.org%3E