Re: [mentors] CLA and accepting patches from the community

2009-12-10 Thread Matt Hogstrom
The normal way this is done is by having someone to submit an ILCA (http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt). This makes it clear that their contributions are intended to be licensed appropriately and clarifies legally their intent. After that, they should submit patches to the project via

[mentors] CLA and accepting patches from the community

2009-12-08 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How does it work (legally) for someone in the community to submit a patch? I've always viewed the process for someone to become a committer to be that they must first submit some code indirectly (meaning, an existing committer vets it and then