James As David explained the how to contribute page on our website is an ASF requirement legally due to any contributions being part of the collective work and protected by copyright law and owned by the ASF.
I appreciate the work that you have done here and that you have brought it back to the community, contributions like this are what helps make Apache Thrift great software. My original message was solely to make sure that Apache Thrift complies with all regulations as set forth by the ASF. I agree that the how to contribute page should have some explanation as to why a patch is required, and I will add something to the website for this. Thank you for creating THRIFT-1695 and including your work there -Jake On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:35 PM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
