IP clearance form

[andygrove]

DO NOT MERGE

IP Clearance Form that will be pushed to incubator SVN once complete.

[alamb]

If you are the only authors, and we have verified that all the authors have an ICLA on file, this is probably fine. I think the idea for the donation form is to ensure it is 100% clear that no corporation will try and assert ownership of the work being donated.

Maybe there is something in the https://lists.apache.org/list.html?legal-discuss@apache.org archives about a similar situation, or if not we could ask there

[alamb]

https://lists.apache.org/thread/11bqj3b5j4xsx58cyddfwntsq6jdlknk looks potentially related but not quite the same

What I suggest is:

1. We get confirmation from @sunchao (the author) that the people on the intial commit to https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion-comet/pull/1 are the only authors
2. We ask all authors to conform that they are legally entitled to donate the work to the Apache Software Foundation (ideally they also have an ICLA filed with Apache, but I don't think this is required)

The authors listed on the https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion-comet/pull/1/commits/2b95ac4431b00fd87cd95a25426b3beefc584842 are:

Initial PR
Co-authored-by: Liang-Chi Hsieh <liangchi@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Kazuyuki Tanimura <ktanimura@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Steve Vaughan Jr <s_vaughan@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxin_gao@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Parth Chandra <parthc@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Oleksandr Voievodin <ovoievodin@apple.com>

If this sounds reasonable to you, I would also be happy to write a note to legal-discuss to see what they say

[alamb]

I actually did some digging digging in the archives --

I think the situation we are discussing here is covered by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-420 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-590

My understanding of those tickets is that making sure we have provenance (who wrote the code) and an assertion they have the legal right to donate the code is sufficient (e.g. I still believe https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion-comet/pull/2#issuecomment-1928553551 good advice)

[sunchao]

Thanks @alamb !

We get confirmation from @sunchao (the author) that the people on the intial commit to https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion-comet/pull/1 are the only authors

Yes, I can confirm these are the only authors of Comet.

We ask all authors to conform that they are legally entitled to donate the work to the Apache Software Foundation (ideally they also have an ICLA filed with Apache, but I don't think this is required)

At this point, all of us should have ICLA filed (most of us already are committers so have filed it long time back, except Kazuyuki and Steve who filed it recently).

[alamb]

At this point, all of us should have ICLA filed (most of us already are committers so have filed it long time back, except Kazuyuki and Steve who filed it recently).

Yes, their ICLA confirmations were recently received by the ASF secretary

[andygrove]

At this point, all of us should have ICLA filed (most of us already are committers so have filed it long time back, except Kazuyuki and Steve who filed it recently).

Yes, their ICLA confirmations were recently received by the ASF secretary

I checked this morning and found that all contributors are either PMC members or committers of ASF projects or have recently filed ICLAs.

[sunchao]

Thanks @andygrove and @alamb ! Please let us know if you've got everything you need. Happy to provide any additional info required.

[andygrove]

I submitted this to the incubator svn repo and started a vote.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/lj3j4q7snpzrfo3mh3cph26mdpr2jrfx

[viirya]

Thank you @alamb @andygrove !