Sorry about that. I got that mixed up with our policy of not accepting changes from anyone who didn't sign the ICLA. I think this is something that we agreed on ourselves, not an Apache thing. I'll try and be more clear in the future.
Joe On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Joe Bowser (Commented) (JIRA) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apache requires us to have contributors sign the ICLA before anything > can be contributed. > > I'm not sure where this meme comes from, but an ICLA is only desired, > not required, for normal contributions [1]: > > The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation > to the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax > or email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The purpose > of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which > intellectual > property has been contributed to the ASF and thereby allow us to defend > the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at > some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an > individual is given commit rights to an ASF project. > > As mentioned above, a CLA is only required for committers. Smaller > contributions are already covered by section 5 of ALv2 [2]. > > [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas > [2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting >
