On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:51:01 -0700 David Reiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> The submission process isn't just a formality. It's necessary to > protect the foundation legally. If the maintainers were allowed to > import patches from the Internet just based on an email and a URL, > there would be too much risk that a third party could claim to own > the code and sue the Apache Foundation. David, thanks for the explanation. OK, will do. Could I suggest that something to that effect be included in HowToContribute? > I'm sorry for the inconvenience. It's too bad it's come to this. Apache itself was created without any such framework. For many years I was unable to contribute to GNU because they demanded a release even though my employer claimed no rights to my work. Regards, --jkl
