In the past, we've assigned copyright to folks that submitted patches.
That policy has ended now, since it just ends up polluting the codebase
with lots of copyrights in a messy, tangled way.
So for those of you submitting patches, please keep the following in mind:
- You will not be assigned any copyright over the code you submit. We
can talk about it if that's a problem, but I think the general goal now
is to try to look for a non-profit legal entity (JRuby Foundation or
something) that we can all assign copyright to, in the spirit of the
Python Foundation. Copyright is just too messy to propagate in the way
we have in the past.
- I don't want to require a signed legal document saying you are legally
able to submit the code you provide, so please don't do anything stupid.
Of course any tainted code can be replaced/routed around, and I doubt
anyone's going to care about a 10-line patch, but for anyone working on
large contributions you need to make sure there's no legal entanglement.
ACTION ITEM:
If you have been assigned copyright in the past, please reply to this
email stating your willingness to have such copyrights removed from the
source. We will eventually move to assign copyright to a single entity,
but the first step would be disentangling copyrights that are already there.
A simple "Yes, I will permit you to remove my copyrights from the JRuby
source" would suffice.
- Charlie
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