Title: Taste Collaborative Filtering Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status
The Taste Collaborative Filtering engine is a Java based library for performing collaborative filtering. It was written and maintained by a single committer, Sean Owen, on SourceForge. It is currently licensed under the Apache Software License, 2.0.
The contributed code is attached to issue MAHOUT-37 and an MD5 hash of db78114f9799905c7d4a5a1907a03e6f.
Which PMC will be responsible for the code: Lucene
Into which existing project/module: Mahout
Officer or member managing donation: Grant Ingersoll
Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).
| date | item |
|---|---|
| NA | If 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: db78114f9799905c7d4a5a1907a03e6f. From Sean Owen: It‘s /sbin/md5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11, on a PowerPC G5. It doesn’t report a version but ssh reports it's using OpenSSL 0.9.7l if that helps.
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2008-05-01 | 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. |
| 2008-05-01 | Check 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: Taste open source project
Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:
| date | item |
|---|---|
| 2008-04-13 | Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on record. Sean Owen is only active committer for Taste and has a CLA on file (srowen) |
| 2008-04-13 | 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. |
| 2008-05-01 | 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. |
| 2008-04-13 | 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. |
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.
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