Title: Intellectual property clearance
One of the Incubator‘s roles is to ensure that proper attention is paid to intellectual property. From time to time, an external codebase is brought into the ASF that is not a separate incubating project but still represents a substantial contribution that was not developed within the ASF’s source control system and on our public mailing lists. This is a short form of the Incubation checklist, designed to allow code to be imported with alacrity while still providing for oversight.
This form is not for new projects. This is for projects and PMCs that have already been created and are receiving a code donation into an existing codebase. Any code that was developed outside of the ASF SVN repository and our public mailing lists must be processed like this, even if the external developer is already an ASF committer.
Incubating projects should follow the procedure described in the incubator mentor guide and report status via STATUS tracking .
The intent is to simply help to ensure, and record, that due diligence (Software Grant, CLA, Corp CLA, license and dependencies) has been paid to the incoming code, so that it can be merged into an existing project/module. These legal documents are available on the ASF Licenses page.
The receiving PMC is responsible for doing the work. The Incubator is simply the repository of the needed information. Once a PMC directly checks-in a filled-out short form, the Incubator PMC will need to approve the paper work after which point the receiving PMC is free to import the code. Note that only lazy consensus is required. The IP clearance template contains more details of this process.
For new IP clearance forms, start with our XML IP clearance template and follow its instructions. Here is the more readable HTML version .
| Clearance document | Receiving PMC | Date recorded |
|---|---|---|
| AsterixDB JDBC Driver | Apache AsterixDB | 2021-07-27 |
| CloudStack Terraform Provider | Apache CloudStack | 2021-07-20 |
| CloudStack Go SDK | Apache CloudStack | 2021-07-20 |
| Apache Avro Rust Library | Apache Avro | 2021-05-24 |
| Apache Tika tika-helm | Apache Tika | 2021-04-13 |
| Apache Arrow Rust Ballista | Apache Arrow | 2021-04-02 |
| Apache Dubbo-go pixiu | Apache Dubbo | 2021-03-19 |
| OpenWhisk VSCode Extension | Apache OpenWhisk | 2020-12-28 |
| OpenWhisk Intellij Plugin | Apache OpenWhisk | 2020-12-28 |
| Apache APISIX ingress controller | Apache APISIX | 2020-11-22 |
| Apache Arrow Julia Library | Apache Arrow | 2020-11-04 |
| Apache TinkerPop - gremlint | Apache TinkerPop | 2020-09-15 |
| Apache Casssandra - Harry | Apache Cassandra - Harry | 2020-09-05 |
| Apache MXNet MShadow | Apache MXNet | 2020-08-05 |
| Apache Dubbo Getty | Apache Dubbo | 2020-07-24 |
| ShardingSphere ElasticJob | Apache ShardingSphere | 2020-05-30 |
| OpenWhisk wskdebug | Apache OpenWhisk | 2020-02-20 |
| Felix Atomos | Apache Felix | 2020-02-07 |
| Weex UI | Apache Weex (Incubating) | 2019-11-06 |
| oas validator | Apache ServiceComb | 2019-10- |
| DukeScript presenters | Apache NetBeans | 2019-10-01 |
| Weex Loader | Apache Weex (Incubating) | 2019-09-30 |
| Weex CLI (i.e. Weex Toolkit) | Apache Weex (Incubating) | 2019-09-27 |
| Airflow on K8s Operator | Apache Airflow | 2019-09-26 |
| Pulsar Manager | Apache Pulsar | 2019-09-09 |
| Milagro Decentralized Trust Authority | Apache Milagro | 2019-08-27 |
| Celix websocket pubsub admin | Apache Celix | 2019-08-19 |
| Beam ZetaSQL Translator | Apache Beam | 2019-08-13 |
| Celix TCP pubsub admin | Apache Celix | 2019-07-24 |
| Apache Dubbo go-hessian2 | Apache Dubbo | 2019-07-18 |
| Celix HTTP admin | Apache Celix | 2019-07-11 |
| Apache ServiceComb Mesher | Apache ServiceComb | 2019-07-10 |
| Apache ServiceComb Toolkit | Apache ServiceComb | 2019-06-18 |
| Apache SkyWalking RocketBot UI | Apache SkyWalking | 2019-04-25 |
| Apache Sling Journal-based Content Distribution | Apache Sling | 2019-04-02 |
| Apache Arrow Rust DataFusion | Apache Arrow | 2019-01-31 |
| Apache Arrow Parquet Rust Library | Apache Arrow | 2018-12-13 |
| Apache OpenWhisk Composer Python | Apache OpenWhisk (Incubator) | 2018-11-26 |
| Apache Arrow Parquet Ruby Library | Apache Arrow | 2018-10-25 |
| Apache Arrow C# Library | Apache Arrow | 2018-10-21 |
| Apache Beam Euphoria API | Apache Beam | 2018-10-10 |
| Apache OpenWhisk Composer | Apache OpenWhisk (Incubator) | 2018-10-09 |
| Apache Beam Dataflow Java Worker | Apache Beam | 2018-10-03 |
| Mojohaus Maven Utilities for Apache NetBeans | Apache NetBeans | 2018-10-02 |
| Arrow Parquet GLib Bindings | Apache Arrow | 2018-09-28 |
| Arrow Gandiva | Apache Arrow | 2018-09-21 |
| Brooklyn UI in Angular/JS | Apache Brooklyn | 2018-07-20 |
| Apache Directory SCIMple | Apache Directory | 2018-07-18 |
| Apache Beam Go SDK | Apache Beam | 2018-05-29 |
| Apache Arrow Ruby Library | Apache Arrow | 2018-05-20 |
| Dubbox documentation | Apache Dubbo (incubating) | 2018-05-15 |
| Apache Felix System Readiness Framework | Apache Felix | 2018-05-03 |
| Apache Felix Logback integration with OSGi Log 1.4 | Apache Felix | 2018-05-03 |
| Fluo contributions from Astralway | Apache Fluo | 2018-04-23 |
| Fineract CN | Fineract CN | 2018-04-09 |
| Python PhoenixDB | Apache Phoenix | 2018-03-19 |
| Arrow Go Library | Apache Arrow | 2018-03-10 |
| Genetic Algorithms Grid | Apache Ignite | 2018-02-22 |
| DeltaSpike Interdyn | Apache DeltaSpike | 2018-02-13 |
| RocketMQ CPP SDK | Apache RocketMQ | 2018-01-12 |
| Apache Felix Bundle Archive File Install Extension | Apache Felix | 2017-12-12 |
| Jackabit Filevault Package Maven Plugin | Apache Jackrabbit | 2017-09-12 |
| JBig2 ImageIO Plugin | Apache PDFBox | 2017-08-28 |
| Apache Arrow Plasma Object Store | Apache Arrow | 2017-07-27 |
| Apache Calcite Avatica Go Client | Apache Calcite | 2017-07-27 |
| Apache Brooklyn / Container Service | Apache Brooklyn | 2017-06-08 |
| Apache Ignite / Persistent Store | Apache Ignite | 2017-05-12 |
| Apache Ratis | Apache Ratis (Incubator) | 2017-01-31 |
| Apache Celix / Publish Subscribe | Apache Celix | 2017-01-27 |
| Cassandra dtest / Distributed Testing Suite | Apache Cassandra | 2017-01-04 |
| Maven Aether / Artifact Resolver | Apache Maven | 2016-10-01 |
| Storm JMS Integration | Apache Storm | 2016-09-29 |
| Storm SQE | Apache Storm | 2016-09-21 |
| Sling Dynamic Includes | Apache Sling | 2016-03-30 |
| Brooklyn CLI | Apache Brooklyn | 2016-02-26 |
| Apache Slider “KOYA” - Kafka on YARN App-Package | Apache Slider (Incubator) | 2016-01-19 |
| JMeter Dashboard / Report | Apache JMeter | 2015-12-03 |
| Sling Pipes | Apache Sling | 2015-12-01 |
| Alibaba JStorm | Apache Storm | 2015-10-22 |
| POI Visio / XDGF | Apache POI | 2015-09-20 |
| Apache Aurora Twitter Commons Java Library | Apache Aurora | 2015-08-10 |
| Apache ORC C++ module | Apache ORC | 2015-07-15 |
| Apache httpd mod_h2 module | Apache HTTP Server | 2015-06-30 |
| Sling HApi Tools | Apache Sling | 2015-06-05 |
| Myriad | Apache Myriad (Incubator) | 2015-06-04 |
| Apache Storm Azure Eventhubs Integration | Apache Storm | 2015-04-20 |
| Flex Documentation | Apache Flex | 2015-04-16 |
| AWS EC2 API wrapper to CloudStack API | Apache CloudStack | 2015-04-13 |
| Google GCE API wrapper to CloudStack API | Apache CloudStack | 2015-04-13 |
| CouchDB Mango | Apache CouchDB | 2015-01-26 |
| Fortress | Apache Fortress | 2014-11-25 |
| HTrace | Apache HTrace | 2014-11-11 |
| Sightly and XSS modules for Sling | Apache Sling | 2014-11-03 |
| Sling Resource Editor | Apache Sling | 2014-10-13 |
| FlatSpark | Apache Flex | 2014-09-26 |
| Radii8 | Apache Flex | 2014-08-20 |
| Quest Data Connector for Sqoop | Apache Sqoop | 2014-08-12 |
| Commons RDF | Apache Commons | 2014-07-21 |
| BigCouch Update | BigCouch Update | 2014-07-17 |
| Sling Query | Sling Query | 2014-07-17 |
| Brooklyn CAMP Server | Apache Incubator - Apache Brooklyn Podling | 2014-07-10 |
| HornetQ | HornetQ | 2014-07-10 |
| We-Amp Ats_speed: PageSpeed optimization plugin for Apache Traffic Server | Apache Traffic Server | 2014-07-04 |
| Adobe Developer Connection, PMD, FDB, Squiggly, Tour de Flex, etc for Apache Flex | Apache Flex | 2014-04-18 |
| Adobe BlazeDS for Apache Flex | Apache Flex | 2014-04-18 |
| Hadoop RDF Tools for Jena | Apache Jena | 2014-04-01 |
| PojoSR for Felix | Apache Felix | 2014-03-05 |
| Apache Phoenix | Apache Phoenix | 2014-02-06 |
| Celix shared memory RSA | Apache Celix (incubating) | 2013-12-10 |
| Sling Replication | Apache Sling | 2013-11-27 |
| UIMA DUCC | Apache UIMA | 2013-11-21 |
| RDP Client for CloudStack | Apache CloudStack | 2013-11-04 |
| Contrail Plugin for CloudStack | Apache CloudStack | 2013-10-04 |
| Wicket Free Guide | Apache Wicket | 2013-08-18 |
| jackrabbit-filevault | Apache Jackrabbit | 2013-07-08 |
| CouchDB BigCouch | Apache CouchDB | 2013-05-30 |
| WS-Eventing Service for CXF | Apache CXF | 2013-05-28 |
| XKMS Service for CXF | Apache CXF | 2013-05-17 |
| Korean Analyzer | Apache Lucene | 2013-05-10 |
| LevenshteinAutomaton/MDAG | Apache Lucene | WIP |
| CloudStack Marvin Test Suite | Apache CloudStack | 2013-05-06 |
| CloudStack support for Juniper SRX/F5 BigIP inline mode | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-27 |
| CloudStack user-initiated SSH key reset | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-27 |
| CloudStack Public IP assignment for EIP in a basic network | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-27 |
| CloudStack L4-L7 Network Services Enablement | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-27 |
| CloudStack Enhanced Baremetal Provisioning | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-25 |
| CloudStack Egress Firewall Rules | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-25 |
| CloudStack Documentation | Apache CloudStack (incubating) | 2013-01-25 |
| mod_macro | Apache HTTP Server | 2013-01-14 |
| uimaFIT | Apache UIMA | 2012-12-10 |
| DeviceMap OpenDDR | Apache DeviceMap (incubating) | 2012-09-20 |
| CouchDB Docs | Apache CouchDB | 2012-09-12 |
| Felix UserAdmin (2nd implementation) | Apache Felix | 2012-09-04 |
| Celix Device Access | Apache Celix (incubating) | 2012-05-16 |
| Redback | Apache Archiva | 2012-04-03 |
| Geronimo 2.2 Dependency Updates | Apache Geronimo | 2011-11-28 |
| Felix Service Diagnostics | Apache Felix | 2011-10-18 |
| Felix Lightweight HttpService | Apache Felix | 2011-09-30 |
| Streaming WS-Security Implementation for Apache WebServices/WSS4J | Apache WebServices | 2011-08-23 |
| Tomcat Maven Plugin | Apache Tomcat | 2011-08-08 |
| PaDaF | Apache PDFBox | 2011-07-13 |
| NPanday | Incubator | 2011-03-04 |
| Leeloo | Apache Amber (incubating) | 2010-12-20 |
| Bushel | Apache Ant | 2010-11-15 |
| CMIS PHP Client | Apache Chemistry (incubating) | 2010-06-03 |
| Felix UPNP Web Console Plugin | Apache Felix | 2010-04-03 |
| Maven Indexer | Apache Maven | 2010-03-03 |
| AlchemyAPI Annotator | Apache UIMA (incubating) | 2010-02-26 |
| LCF connectors-metacarta | Lucene Connector Framework (Incubating) | 2010-02-13 |
| OpenCMIS | Apache Chemistry (incubating) | 2010-02-11 |
| cmislib | Apache Chemistry (incubating) | 2010-02-07 |
| DB Torque generator | Apache DB | 2010-02-04 |
| XWork | Apache Struts | 2009-12-29 |
| Ant Groovy Front | Apache Ant | 2009-12-18 |
| User Admin | Apache Felix | 2009-12-01 |
| Improved HttpService | Apache Felix | 2009-09-04 |
| Sigil | Apache Felix | 2009-07-03 |
| OSGi Shell | Apache Felix | 2009-05-26 |
| mod_fcgid | Apache HTTP Server | 2009-02-03 |
| OpenXML4J | Apache POI | 2008-11-11 |
| velocity-tiles | Apache Tiles | 2008-10-31 |
| local-lucene | Apache Lucene | 2008-09-15 |
| commons-flatfile | Apache Commons | 2008-09-04 |
| felix-remote-shell | Apache Felix | 2008-08-11 |
| Zookeeper | Apache Hadoop | 2008-07-15 |
| Pax Logging | Apache Felix | 2008-06-02 |
| harmony-1680-contribution-javap-kononov | Apache Harmony | 2008-05-22 |
| OSGi Console | Apache Felix | 2008-05-13 |
| Kitten Auth | Apache Wicket | 2008-05-10 |
| harmony-5742-contribution-microemu-teodorczyk | Apache Harmony | 2008-04-25 |
| UIMA-AS | Apache Incubator | 2008-04-23 |
| mod_domain | Apache HTTP Server | 2008-04-18 |
| maven-archiva-webdav | Apache Maven | 2008-03-13 |
| File Install | Apache Felix | 2008-02-06 |
| Deployment Admin | Apache Felix | 2008-01-09 |
| xmlgraphics-batik-xmleditor-component | Apache XML Graphics | 2007-11-28 |
| trinidad-translations | Apache MyFaces | 2007-11-27 |
| torque-village-contribution | Apache DB | 2007-10-22 |
| maven-shade-plugin | Apache Maven | 2007-09-10 |
| jsr-301-ri | Apache MyFaces | 2007-09-04 |
| maven-archetypeng | Apache Maven | 2007-08-29 |
| Apache CXF Wsdl2JS Tool | Apache CXF (Incubator) | 2007-07-30 |
| Shale Clay Plugin for Eclipse | Apache Shale | 2007-07-11 |
| maven-patch-plugin | Apache Maven | 2007-07-05 |
| Cactus | Apache Jakarta | 2007-03-24 |
| jackrabbit-bundle-persistence | Apache Jackrabbit | 2007-03-07 |
| derby-2248-contribution-tests-ibm | Apache DB | 2007-02-26 |
| xmlgraphics-commons-postscript-dsc-parser | Apache XML Graphics | 2007-02-26 |
| geronimo-2743-ibm-covalent-j2g | Apache Geronimo | 2007-02-19 |
| TRIPLES-1: mod_sparql | Incubator | 2007-02-18 |
| TRIPLES-2: libb | Incubator | 2007-02-18 |
| TRIPLES-3: RDFStore | Incubator | 2007-02-18 |
| Apache::Reload | Apache-Perl | 2007-02-08 |
| derby-2134-contribution-tests-ibm | Apache DB | 2007-01-10 |
| Wombat | Apache HTTP Server | 2006-12-06 |
| directory-triplesec | Apache Directory | 2006-10-18 |
| directory-mitosis | Apache Directory | 2006-10-18 |
| harmony-438-contribution-drlvm-intel | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2006-05-31 |
| Jakarta Commons CSV | Apache Jakarta | 2006-04-21 |
| xmlgraphics-fop-afp-renderer | Apache XML Graphics | 2006-04-20 |
| activemq | Apache Geronimo | 2006-04-18 |
| servicemix | Apache Geronimo | 2006-04-18 |
| jakarta-commons-composite-pool | Apache Jakarta | 2006-03-19 |
| ode-2-intalio-pxe | Apache Ode / Incubator | 2006-03-13 |
| harmony-127-contribution-plugin-ibm | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2006-03-01 |
| harmony-88-contribution-tests-ibm | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2006-03-01 |
| harmony-57-contribution-tests-ibm | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2006-03-01 |
| ode-1-sybase-bpe | Apache Ode / Incubator | 2006-02-21 |
| geronimo-1478-xbean | Apache Geronimo | 2006-02-13 |
| harmony-16-contribution-classlib-intel | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2005-12-20 |
| myfaces-tobago | Apache MyFaces | 2005-12-20 |
| harmony-14-contribution-classlib-ibm | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2005-11-24 |
| maven-surefire | Apache Maven | 2005-11-07 |
| maven-doxia | Apache Maven | 2005-11-07 |
| geronimo-1111-trifork-initial | Apache Geronimo | 2005-10-27 |
| harmony-6-contribution-jvm-daniel-lydick | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2005-10-08 |
| harmony-3-ccontribution-jcvm-archie-cobbs | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2005-10-04 |
| harmony-5-component-poc-david-tanzer | Apache Harmony / Incubator | 2005-09-28 |
| geronimo-1016-ibm-daytrader | Apache Geronimo | 2005-09-20 |
| geronimo-875-ibm-eclipse | Apache Geronimo | 2005-08-16 |
| geronimo-762-ibm-console | Apache Geronimo | 2005-07-14 |
| geronimo-iiop | Apache Geronimo | 2005-01-15 |
| apr-jlibtool | Apache Portable Runtime (APR) | 2004-07-08 |
| portals-gluecode-jetspeed | Apache Portals | 2004-06-27 |
| ws-sandesha | Apache Web Services | 2004-05-02 |
| ws-wss4j | Apache Web Services | 2004-02-24 |
The software grant requires that “Licensor owns or has sufficient rights to contribute the software source code...”. In the case where there are multiple entities involved that only together have sufficient rights (for example in the case of an existing external project with multiple contributors), there are basically two possibilities to continue:
All entities sign the same software grant together and submit one software grant form. This is preferred but obviously can complicate the process considerably.
The alternative is that each party sign its own software grant while everyone references the same contribution (designated by a URL and an MD5 hash over the ZIP file representing the contribution). It is recommended that the software grant form is modified in order to have a line for each party so the completeness of the paperwork can be verified upon receipt.