Thank you for the clarification.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:32 AM Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > CLAs aren’t assigning copyright or anything. It’s asserting that you have the > rights to the code being uploaded and are allowing the ASF to use it under > the Apache License. For non-trivial contributions made by non-committers, > it’s typically up to the PMC to decide whether they can vouch for the > contribution themselves or if the contributor should sign an ICLA. > > Basically, the provenance of all code at Apache should be traceable to > committers with an ICLA on file or an initial software grant from the > corporation who donated the code base. > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:22, James Bognar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Does that mean that I as a committer am legally responsible for >> contributions accepted by non-committers? It's not my code, so how >> can I grant copyright to it to the Apache Foundation? >> >> Just curious. >> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:07 AM Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Not necessarily. An ICLA is needed to become a committer, and any >> > contributions accepted are committed by people who already signed the >> > ICLA. It can make things easier in the long run to submit an ICLA, though. >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 08:08, James Bognar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Question... >> >> >> >> Do Outreachy candidates need to submit CLAs in order to make code >> >> contributions? >> > >> > -- >> > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
