Members of the Jakarta Community :
With the privilege of committership in the ASF comes the requirement that each committer sign a document called the "Committer License Agreement", or CLA.
The CLA is a legal agreement between you, the committer, and the ASF in which you state that the contributions that you make to the ASF in form of code, documentation, etc is your work that you are free to contribute, and that you are granting an unfettered copyright license to the ASF for that work. The purpose is to allow the ASF to be sure that the code that it offers to the world is, to the best of it's knowledge, free of questions about source and ownership.
To that end, it is required that every committer in Jakarta has a signed CLA on file with the ASF. In the past, we have been negligent in ensuring this document was completed and filed, and wish to immediately rectify the situation for the ASF. This is a simple procedure, generally requiring just a few minutes of your time to fill out and mail or fax to the ASF administrative office. It will be greatly appreciated if this could be taken care of immediately.
To check to see if you have a CLA on file, look here :
http://www.apache.org/~jim/committers.html
or
http://www.apache.org/~jim/projects.html
and find your name on either. If it is in italics, it means the CLA has been received and is on file. If not, please get one in.
If you don't have a CLA on file, the CLA form can be found here :
http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla.txt
and a PDF version can be found here :
http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla.pdf
We will be sending out gentle reminders during the upcoming week or so for those that don't have a CLA on file, so the sooner the better as there will be less follow-up work for other Jakarta community members to do - after all, this is your responsibility and we're all volunteers.
If there are any questions or problems, please bring them to this list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you have private concerns, because of employment or otherwise, feel free to post to the Official Jakarta State Sekrets List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), send a private message to one or more of the knowledgeable people here on general@, post to the board list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - fair warning -> readership is bigger than just the board - or to one of the board members or officers directly. This is an important subject, and people will give help if asked.
Thanks for looking into this serious matter.
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