Hi All, Okay, here is something official:
We have our lawyer working on a contributor agreement. As a reference we suggested the old Sun SGE Contributor agreement, Apache Contributor agreement as good examples. It will take him some time to get this done (longer than I want) I don't have a date yet from him. For now I suggest looking at the Apache Contributor agreement - our agreement will likely end up similar to it. Bill. On 2011-02-23, at 9:28 AM, Dave Love wrote: > Fritz Ferstl <[email protected]> writes: > >> I can see a few things to discuss here: >> >> - Information we need to provide to make it easily understandable what >> the process is to contribute >> >> - Things we need to decide and act upon to complete this process (like >> creating a contributor agreement) > > Yes. I think it would be useful for Univa to say something official > about it to reassure people that something is happening, and warn them > about doing work which they may not be able to contribute if they can't > get papers signed. Maybe I, or someone else, can provide a home for > such things, though. > > By the way, I assume that papers aren't needed for changes which are > insignificant copyright-wise, e.g. one-liners, and things which don't > have creative content like those that can only be done one way, or > typos. The FSF legal advice is that <~15 lines is small enough not to > need (in their case) an assignment. See > <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html>, > though the legal advice seems to have changed over the years. It also > mentions giving credit when people haven't actually contributed > material, which should be done to help people feel wanted. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users --------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice from Univa Postmaster: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. This message has been content scanned by the Univa Mail system. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
