There are many ways membership could be defined ( but it isn't ).
Committers are assigning the (copy)rights of their work to ASF - and as was mentioned, the members
"own" the code and all the IP of ASF. It would be nice ( and fair !) to have the membership based on some
objective criteria on code and community contributions.
I can't know the exact rules that are used - but sometimes it feels a lot more like membership to a political party. The scary
thing is that some of the answers to "what is a member" ( and I've seen many of those during the last years ) sound
too much like a certain party :-).
I would assume most people who choose to give significant amounts of time and code to ASF are "serious" and serve the interests of the ASF.
Costin
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