CLA and ICLA policy clarified

[Rick Hillegas]

Last week at ApacheCon, I attended most of Cliff Schmidt's sessions on 
intellectual property issues. Cliff is the ASF's vice president for 
legal affairs. Cliff clarified that ICLAs are only needed for 
committers. Similarly, a company's CLA only needs to cover its 
committers. According to Cliff, we don't need ICLA/CLA coverage for 
contributors who aren't committers.

It seems to me that Derby's policy is stricter than this. As I recall, 
we require ICLA/CLA coverage for all contributors, regardless of whether 
they are committers. Why is Derby's policy stricter than general ASF policy?

Thanks,
-Rick