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Pay attention to the Contributor License Agreement page, or http://jakarta.apache.org/site/agreement.html I have signed the agreement. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gianugo Rabellino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LAW] Quick Lesson in Copyright Law (was RE: > copyright for docs [was: Re: [Bugs] URLSource]) > > > Berin Loritsch wrote: > > > > Committers are aware of the implications of their work in the CVS > > meaning that they implicitly donated the code to the ASF. That is > > part of the agreement they are forced to sign. > > > > OK guys, you know I'm a lawyer so I'm getting picky in those > things... :-) > > While I sure do know in my soul how this is true, and it's my > intention > to donate all of my work to the ASF, it might be worth noticing that > when I was proposed and accepted as a committer no one made me sign > anything or even sent me a mail stating what were my obligations as a > committer using CVS. > > I don't know if this was an oversight in my case: if so then > no problem > at all, but if mine is a normal case then AFAIU (based on > most european > laws) there is no legal bound between committing code and > automagically > donate it to the ASF. If this what we want to achieve (and I > certainly > want it) then it might be the case of having some sort of > procedure for > new committers so that they know precisely what are their > obligations in > contributing to ASF codebases. Probably it would be enough to have a > sentence like "by logging into your new account you explicitly accept > the ASF rules found at the address http://www.apache.org/whatever"; > included in the email where the account data is sent to the > new committer. > > How about it? > > -- > Gianugo Rabellino > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
