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John McNally wrote:
Whether the CLA is a requirement is not absolute, there is room for judgement by the committer(s). Any donation of substantial new code should not be accepted without a CLA. A patch that fixes a defect and only affects a couple of lines of code does not require a CLA.
If you have an individual that contributes many such small patches though, it is not a bad idea to ask that they submit a CLA.
In general error toward the side of requiring it before the code goes into cvs, but there is no need to be so overzealous that you have to turn away perfectly good bug fixes, that are probably going to have to be fixed in a way very similar to the contributed patch anyway, just because the person that took the time to put together the patch does not wish to sign a document and fax it.
John McNally
