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]>

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