On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: >>...I wanted to know about the ICLA process in order >> to follow it and have no intention of circumventing it. E.g. the ESME >> site was created by Dick, but uploaded by Bertrand, so there must be >> perfectly clean ways for someone like Dick to contribute. I wanted to >> know where to draw the line.... > > In this case, Dick, when updating his patches to ESME-2, checked the > "grant license to ASF" option, visible at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ManageAttachments.jspa?id=12410470 > - that makes it fine for a committer to apply those patches.
documentation is - in some ways - a difficult subject than code a typical code contributions will be - as a derivative work - covered by AL2.0 clause 5. apache always try to be as clear and transparent as possible - the click through license isn't usually strictly necessary but it's good for contributors to actively make an explicit choice to donate. however - Bertrand said - it is important to ask any multiple contributors for a CLA (as part of encouragement aimed at persuading them to join the community) > There's no such option for wiki content unfortunately, AFAIK. +1 > Still, when someone starts updating lots of patches (whatever that > means) in this way, projects usually ask them to submit an iCLA - it's > also a good way to make people aware that their contributions might > help them become a committer at some point. +1 - robert
