On 15/06/18 14:49, Maxime Lefrançois wrote:
Dear all,
Regarding our contribution proposal to enable extensions to override SPARQL
operators in Jena
We finally got the agreement from our institution to contribute to the
Apache foundation.
Question 1: what is the procedure to upload the form?
Normally, the act of providing a contribution like a patch or small
feature is enough. The individual is making the contribution and it is
their responsibility to know this is open source. This also covers code
in email to Apache mailing lists (but not elsewhere and not stackoverflow).
It sounds like your institution would prefer an explicit declaration.
These are the Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA) and
Corporate Contributor License Agreement (CCLA).
Ideally, you should provide an ICLA as well as the institution
submitting an CCLA as you are also an individual here - it will cover
working on the contribution after submission.
The CCLA has a section to name the contribution and an optional section
for naming people - it isn't an open ended commitment.
On the ICLA, you don't need to request an Apache id. It will cover all
Apache projects.
The forms are available at:
https://www.apache.org/licenses/
For completeness - there is the Apache Software Grant for an existing
body of work that may have existed a open source. (e.g. This is used
when a project joins Apache).
Andy
