On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Ceki [iso-8859-1] G�lc� wrote:
> A commercial company, after changing its business orientation, recently
> proposed to donate a rather large chuck of code, essentially a log4j
> extension, to the log4j project. Do we need to have them sign any
> paperwork? Assuming they post the source code (under the Apache Software
> License) to the log4j-dev list, can we then consider that the
> contribution is "just" a large patch?
>
> Any clarification on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
There are several reasons why this needs a contributors license (assuming
people want the code)
- Whoever post the patch cannot claim he has written
it himself
- And since it is clearly associated with a commercial
company - that person cannot easily claim he or she
owns it 100%
- Nor do we have a clear relation (committer, member)
with that person.
So each of those is an indiactor that you propably want to go through the
contributor license hassle. The PMC or board can help you.
Feel free to ask for a hand.
But of course.... you do want to make sure that the log4j community
actually wants that code !
Dw
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