Re: [ee4j-community] Retaining History for incoming EE4J Projects

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

None of that is true, and I have no idea what was said that drove you to 
that conclusion.

Surely you can recognize that the initial code contribution for projects 
of this size and complexity are a bit of a special case.


On 2018-01-16 1:37 PM, Markus KARG wrote:
> So what you actually try to tell us is that Oracle and the EF have to scan
> EACH single commit of the history for legal issues and copyright headers and
> neither of both parties trusts Oracle that Oracle's licence terms and file
> headers did not change between the history and the LAST commit? Furthermore
> you want to express that only Oracle and the EMO can do that job but not the
> newly elected commiters of that projects (which all have signed an agreement
> to do such checks for each new commit)?
>
> Okay, THEN we (the committers) really cannot help.
>
> -Markus
>
>
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> On 2018-01-15 12:40 PM, Markus KARG wrote:
> > If it is not a legal issue, the file headers can stay as they are, and
> > if it is only a time issue,_I_  can fetch and push the commits between the
> repos.
> > So why not letting me do that?
> Because that's not how it works....
>
> Like every large company we have ever worked with, before Oracle contributes
> any code to any open source foundation they have a process to follow.
> (Scanning code, reviewing copyright headers, checking license compatibility,
> etc.)
>
> Before the Eclipse Foundation accepts significant code contributions to its
> projects, we have a process that we follow. (Scanning code, reviewing
> copyright headers, checking license compatibility, etc.)
>
> As I said: real time, effort, and resources are required to move the
> history.
>
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