Rick Hillegas wrote:
The legal-discuss alias has discussed the process of contributing
localized message files to Derby. Two email threads touch this topic
on
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200807.mbox/browser
:
Blanket software grant
Question about handling external updates to contributed files
I would like to try to summarize these threads:
1) There seems to be consensus that these files can be checked in
under a committer's ICLA. The committer would enjoy extra protection
if the contributing company's CCLA explicitly granted permission for
these contributions.
The CCLA causes a lot of confusion. Roy said it exceptionally well [1]:
If you have permission from your company, you can contribute them under
your own ICLA. However, it is better for your sake (not Apache's) that
you have a signed CCLA in place that formally says you have permission
to commit stuff that is copyright the company. Only one CCLA is needed
for all such commits.
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200807.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2) Although the localizations were prepared by people who have not
signed ICLAs, a commit-by-proxy of their contributions is allowed
under section 4 of the committer's ICLA. See
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
3) It would be good to document these conclusions on a wiki page.
If the community agrees with these conclusions, then I propose to
check in the 10.4 localizations under my ICLA. In addition, I propose to
A) Capture this discussion on a wiki page
B) Point to that wiki page from my localization JIRA:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3804
Please let me know whether you think this is acceptable.
I agree -- it makes sense to handle the translated message files in this
way because this same set of files gets updated for (nearly) every release.
thanks, Rick,
-jean
Thanks,
-Rick
