Does one of our mentors (Ross, Greg, Jim, Rich) know how we should handle this? Or should I ask more broadly like on the incubator general list?
I am excited to have contributions, so want to figure this out :) -Dave On 8/15/12 11:41 AM, Dave Brondsema wrote: > I would like to merge > https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/git/merge-requests/6/ a contribution > from Hendrik Brummermann, but am not sure how we should handle licensing. > > I understand that other projects that take patches via JIRA have a > checkbox when the patch is attached. "Grant license to ASF for > inclusion in ASF works (as per the Apache License ยง5)" > > Should we just capture the same approval on the Allura merge request or > ticket? For now it'd have to be a regular comment, but we could make it > a special field eventually. > > In the past, our few contributors have signified that they have rights > to the code and that they wish to share it under the terms of the Apache > License Version 2.0 by using "git commit --signoff" This has been a bit > of a pain since sometimes we'd have to ask folks to redo their commits > with the sign-off. Also IMO the sign-off doesn't clearly denote its > meaning. > -- Dave Brondsema : [email protected] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming <><
