Currently we strictly require a CLA (by which I mean an ICLA or CCLA) for any contributions to be accepted, as http://freemarker.org/contribute.html says.
This practice was inherited from the pre-ASF times, when without lawyers available, we tried to be on the safe side. But based on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-156 and https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CommitPolicy and some other mails we can make things simpler for contributors (not to be confused with committers). So I propose that we say that: - People sending contributions with GitHub pull requests need no CLA. But, before merging, we must check that: - The mail about the pull request was received to [email protected], so that there's a record of this even in the ASF infrastructure. - The files in the pull request has the standard ASF copyright headers, or no copyright headers in files where that's normally not present. There's no other conflicting copyright information included either (like a such LICENSE file). - People sending in patches as attachment to FreeMarker Jira issues need no CLA. But, before merging, we must check that: - It's clear from the wording of the issue that the user wishes to contribute (as opposed to, for example, just showing an example). - Copyright headers are in order, just as with GitHub pull request. If someone contributes a bigger feature, yet they isn't a committer, we might still ask a CLA though. But that can be dealt with when such thing happens. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
