Your explanation is crystal clear. I'll organize a vote on the donation just to make sure that we really want the code. Thanks again, Ceki
At 23:58 11.04.2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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 > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ceki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
