We should probably be ensuring that we have something stating that the
contributor is assigning license to the ASF. I remember talking about
this, but I don't recall the outcome (will have to search history).
I'm not sure if there are specific steps that need to be formally
followed or if the contributor stating the above on a Jira issue is
sufficient.
On 10/15/13 3:50 PM, Sean Busbey wrote:
I don't recall a discussion happening about granting license to the ASF
when the repo moved to git. Looking at the git workflow guide[1], I don't
see any mention of licensing.
In other projects (e.g. Avro[2] and Hive[3]) assigning license to the ASF
is an important part of submitting a contribution. In those projects,
people are instructed to attach their patches to an open jira so that
license can be granted; pull requests from github generally aren't allowed.
Do we have a stance as a project on this? I think those two projects
basically say that the grant is required by the Apache License itself. Are
there ASF rules that can provide guidance on this?
-Sean
[1]: http://accumulo.apache.org/git.html
[2]:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AVRO/How+To+Contribute#HowToContribute-Contributingyourwork
[3]:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToContribute#HowToContribute-Contributingyourwork
