On 2/13/06, David M Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > Apologies for not doing my job and talking about this earlier. > > > > Software grants > > ---------------------- > > > > 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.
Nope, just software grants. Also an ICLA wouldn't stop the need to get a software grant - the work was developed prior to having an ICLA, and outside of the ASF SVN. > 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? [s/ICLA/Software Grant] I love how we all ask that question :) Nope, that doesn't require a grant. I think the important part there is that a patch or a bug report is not a new piece of work; it's just a modification of something we already own and the act of reporting to us acknowledges that (IANAL though so will have to nudge my explanation towards Cliff to see if he agrees). New vs modify. Sizeable vs tiny. Ultimately it'll be up to the PMC to draw the line on the grey areas; or legal if they're not sure etc. Hen
