On Feb 12, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
Apologies for not doing my job and talking about this earlier.
Software grants
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Whenever code enters the ASF, it needs to be clearly defining the
intellectual property. In the case of our day to day commits; this is
handled by our ICLA. In the case when our ICLA is being used as a part
of our employment, we have the addition of the CCLA.
This doesn't cover work that has been developed outside of the ASF.
Regardless of who did the work; if a body of existing code is donated
to the ASF - a Software Grant needs to be signed and faxed/snailed:
bottom of http://www.apache.org/licenses/.
I'm unsure if there's a way to speed this up for the model where a 3rd
party (IBM/Sun/JavaLobby/whomever) are maintaining an internal version
of Roller with enhancements - a model where we'd hope to be able to
encourage frequent donations of bodies of code. I'll try to find
that out.
Sounds like we need an ICLA from Jeff Blattman of Sun and Phay Tac
Lau of IBM.
One question: does this policy apply for every patch, no matter how
small? For example, if somebody posts a bug report and includes a one
sentence description of exactly what must be changed in one specific
file, do we need an ICLA for that?
- Dave
