[LEGAL-267] Questionable use of third party code in major code contribution

• Type: Question
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benedikt Ritter
• Created: 29/Jul/16 08:45
• Updated: 21/Aug/16 20:43
• Resolved: 21/Aug/16 20:43

Description

Hello,

the Apache Commons project has received a major code donation via GitHub [1]. It looks like good parts of that contribution have been copied from the ASM framework which is licensed under the terms of BSD 3-Clause License. Given the information of the Previously Asked Questions page [3], I assume that we could theoretically include this contribution.

• Can you confirm, that we can accept this contribution from a legal PoV?
• What would be a polite way to bring this to Commons BCEL WRT to the ASM project? The contributor seems to be unrelated to ASM and has just copied the parts from ASM. Should we notify the ASM project ob this?
• The discussion at GitHub already brought up the topic of adding a NOTICE file. This seems to be missing in the PR. Is that all that needs to be done to include this contribution?

Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/apache/commons-bcel/pull/7
[2] http://asm.ow2.org/
[3] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a