Thanks for the additions and clarifications. Our collective understanding in this project is getting more and more finetuned, great.
Gj On Saturday, October 8, 2016, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 08/10/16 à 19:12, Geertjan Wielenga a écrit : > > People on this mailing list, yes. > > > > Oracle and companies in general do not exist in Apache. Only indivudusl > > contributors exist. Together, as individual contributors, including > > contributors from many organizations (see the initial contributors list > in > > the proposal) will work on this together. > > > > No release without code grant, yup. No one will be able to contribute > > without an iCLA. > > Correct. Except for code that is pushed through a JIRA/Bugzilla ticket, > assuming it's traced back to an individual, and its IP is cleared (bit > most of the time, it's just patches, so that's fine) > > > > Corporate contributor agreements are not really relevant for Apache and > > seem to exist mainly to provide a feeling for individual contributors > that > > their company supports their work. > No only : it also protect the committer, from legal standpoint. > > All companies don't allow their employee to work on a OSS project, even > during their free time, so obtaining their company's CCLA is a legal way > to make so that their contribution has been agred on. > > Emmanuel >
