On Feb 13, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Jeff Blattman wrote:
one thing ... this code will probably be modified to greater or
lesser degree in the coming months. i would like to be in a
position where i can put back bug fixes, etc. is that possible?
Yes.
I've been pointing folks to this explanation for years.
http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ContributorFAQs
Maybe there is a more concise/accurate version of this advice on
apache.org
- Dave
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/.
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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.
Hen
