Great that was the page was looking for. For all woden committers
thinking of committing a patch - there is a small print line at the
bottom of the page:

Entries in italics do NOT have a signed Contributor License Agreement
on file (this knowledge is keyed by CVS/SVN id)

Jeremy

On 3/16/06, Guillaume Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FWIW, I have a CLA on file.
> See the full list here
> http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html
>
> Guillaume Nodet
>
> Jeremy Hughes wrote:
>
> >Now that there are some more folks are getting interested in Woden,
> >and Guillame has posted a patch - thanks, and Venkat seem keen to also
> >:-) ... it got me thinking. What do we as committers of patches need
> >to do to ensure there are no IP issues with code contributed as a
> >patch by someone who hasn't submitted an ICLA to the ASF. OK, so when
> >you attach a patch to a JIRA you "Grant license to ASF for inclusion
> >in ASF works (as per the Apache Software License §5)". However this
> >isn't as strong as the ICLA. In fact come to think of it I don't know
> >where the list of ICLAs for non-committers is kept? Dims do you know?
> >
> >The Xerces project has further instructions [1] where you give the
> >name of your employer, whether you authored the code, whether you have
> >the right to grant the copyright, whether your employer has any rights
> >to the code (thru employment contract), third party license
> >restrictions.
> >
> >The DB project FAQ [2] says "Contributors who are not committers are
> >in a somewhat fuzzy spot." :-) ... "if you make a large contribution,
> >or many contributions, a DB committer will likely ask you to submit an
> >ICLA"
> >
> >I favour the DB project approach - I'm guessing the Xerces charter was
> >written before the option on the JIRA "attach a file" page. We could
> >add this to the Woden site.
> >
> >Dims, is there anything more official from the board on this? is the
> >DB approach sufficient? Is there a list of people with email ids who
> >have ICLAs submitted to the ASF - a list that any committer can
> >access?
> >
> >Many thanks,
> >Jeremy
> >
> >[1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/charter.html §7.3
> >[2] http://db.apache.org/derby/faq.html#derby_icla
> >
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