Hi Eduardo, Well, I remember you from Sun. ;-)
On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:34 PM, eduardo pelegri-llopart wrote:
Hi there. Matthias suggested this would be a good alias to ask for experience at ASF on Contribution Agreements. Some of you may remember me from my Sun days; I'm now working at RIM and as I apply my experience to our projects I notice situations I had not considered/encountered at Sun [2,3]. The Apache contribution agreement [1] does not seem to include a mechanism by which a signatory of the CA can indicate that future IP is no longer covered. Not something to revoke previous contributions but just for the future, say to be clear of his/her intentions. Is that correct? If so, is it because the need has never arisen?, because its hard to do legally?, because it is very easy to do?, or something else? BTW, as far as I know, Sun didn't have any such mechanism either.
I think the situation isn't well-understood. Once you sign the ICLA, your contributions are covered. If you don't want future contributions to be covered by the agreement, don't contribute any more.
If you have a test case for a bug you submit, and don't want the test case to become part of your contribution, there's a tick box on the bug report that says "this is not a contribution".
What is the situation that you need covered? Regards, Craig
Thanks, Eduard/o (Pelegri-Llopart) - OSS @ RIM [1]http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt [2]http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.3.pdf [3]http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.4.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
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