RE: Requirements for taking patches from LibreOffice contributors?

2015-11-04 Thread Pedro Giffuni
FWIW, I have taken libreoffice patches after the author has agreed by copying the email providing permission to our secretary. An iCLA is not mandatory even for large patches unless the author wants to formally continue contributing his code. Note that there are several LibreOffice developers tha

RE: Requirements for taking patches from LibreOffice contributors?

2015-11-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[mailto:dam...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 08:39 > To: Apache OO > Subject: Requirements for taking patches from LibreOffice contributors? > > Hi > > In a private email exchange, I got a developer that wrote a patch for > LibreOffice to agree to also

Requirements for taking patches from LibreOffice contributors?

2015-11-04 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi In a private email exchange, I got a developer that wrote a patch for LibreOffice to agree to also license that patch under the Apache License version 2 so we can use it. Now can I just take that patch from LibreOffice and apply it, with a "Patch-by:" tag specifying this developer, or do we fi