You are right.
The paragraph that I quoted from Apache is pretty clear about that.
They do recommend getting ICLAs from everyone but as you said, it is not
required.
The CCLA is important and I would hope that the main corporate
supporters are all covered.
Ron
On 09/06/2016 1:46 PM, Pierre-Luc Dion wrote:
Hi Ron,
As far as I know, ICLA and CCLA is required for commiters, but not required
for non-commiters contributors. I don't know about all details, someone
else in the ML might have more details about this. For sure, you can be a
contributor without submitting code as a anyone in this ML is consider as a
contributor.
Cheers,
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com
wrote:
As part of a discussion during last weeks meeting in Mpntreal, the
question was raised about the requirement to have an Individual Contributor
License Agreement (ICLA) for each contributor.
http://www.apache.org/licenses/ describes the requirements as follows:
"The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to
any Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via fax or email) an
Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA). 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 ICLA is required to be on file before an individual is given
commit rights to an ASF project.
For a corporation that has assigned employees to work on an Apache
project, a Corporate CLA (CCLA) is available for contributing intellectual
property via the corporation, that may have been assigned as part of an
employment agreement. Note that a Corporate CLA does not remove the need
for every developer to sign their own ICLA as an individual, to cover any
of their contributions which are not owned by the corporation signing the
CCLA."
There is a split between desirable and mandatory.
I am not sure that the argument that submitting a PR is a clear sign of
intent to give up all rights, has ever been tested in a court but it is
much easier to have an signed ICLA for each contributor.
A CCLA for each company that is either paying people to work on the
project or has a clause in their employment contract giving the company
rights to all IP created during their employment is required. This removes
any ambiguity about the individual's right to make a PR.
It is a little bit of housekeeping to keep track of the list of
contributors with ICLA's. A wiki page listing the contributors is a simple
solution.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+Contributors
is what we did at OFBiz.
The ICLA and CCLA is good for all Apache projects.
Ron
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