Title: Nano Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status

Nano is a minimalistic client for CouchDB written in JavaScript

  • The CouchDB PMC is responsible for this code/documentation.

  • The code will get part of the CouchDB project. It will need a separate git repository hosted at the ASF, example naming: couchdb-nano

  • Officer or member managing donation: Jan Lehnardt (jan@apache.org)

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

Identify the codebase

2015-05-03A tarball is provided at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1809262/nano-asf/nano.tar.gz
2015-05-01If applicable, make sure that any associated name does not already exist and is not already trademarked for an existing software product.

MD5 or SHA1 sum for donated software: 99a0922500f914407a9fb5fbf0b0984a (md5).

Copyright

dateitem
2015-06-21Check 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.
2015-05-03Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Identify name recorded for software grant: the name of the grant as record in the grants.txt document so that the grant can be easily identified

Verify distribution rights

Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:

  • Nuno Job
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2015-05-01Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record.
2015-05-01Remind 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.
2015-05-01Check 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.
2015-05-01Check 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.

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.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

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