(CCing Jeremias Maerki of FOP as I have discussed this with him
recently)
This is mostly a question for the PMC, but I see no need to discuss it
in private so here we go:
Other ASF projects have started to request CLAs [1] much earlier when
people contribute to their projects. The reason,
On Monday 01 August 2005 17:32, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
On the plus side: the CLA clearly defines the terms under which
intellectual property has been contributed to the ASF, quoting from
http://apache.org/licenses/#clas
The minus side: asking for a CLA even for small things (what's
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Other ASF projects have started to request CLAs [1] much earlier when
people contribute to their projects. The reason, IIUC, is to really
make sure that contributors understand what they're doing in terms of
licensing, copyright etc.
And this
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
situation seems to be even worse, as the employer owns all output of the
employee (if they have any business claims in software, which nowadays are
Note that in this case the definition of a contribution and clause 5 help
you here. If your company
On 01.08.2005 11:32, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
We have accepted several sizeable contributions without requiring a CLA
in the past, now the question is, do we want to follow the flow and ask
for CLAs for all contributions?
From my non-legal, but practical view: What are the ways we receive
Joerg Heinicke wrote:
On 01.08.2005 11:32, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
We have accepted several sizeable contributions without requiring a
CLA in the past, now the question is, do we want to follow the flow
and ask for CLAs for all contributions?
From my non-legal, but practical view: What
