All committers have to file the following agreement: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
Contributor submits patches to a jira. The patches will be reviewed and if accepted, they will be checked in by a committer. If a contributor makes significant contribution, he/she will be nominated as a committer. All contributed code has the Apache license. Thanks, Jun On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Roshanak Afsarifard < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Kafka development team, > > First of all thank you for all your efforts on Kafka. We are > considering using Kafka in our software. > In order to do so, we need your help to understand the processes in place > to manage Intellectual Property, code ownership, and provenance in this > project. > > Can you please answer the following questions: > > > 1. What is the process to make someone a committer to this project, > with the ability to checkin code to this project? Does the person have to > agree to a certain terms of use? If so please point me to the terms of use > document. > > > > 2. Did all the people who contributed code agree to contribute code > under the existing license? > > > > 3. Outside the committers, how are code contributions from the > community accepted? Do external code contributors have to accept the same > terms as above, before their code is integrated into the project? > > > > 4. Does anyone else have rights to the code that has been > contributed to this project? > > > Thank you in advance. > > Roshanak Afsarifard > Director, Engineering > Actuate Corporation > 2207 Bridgepointe Parkway, Suite 500 > San Mateo, CA 94404 > Tel: (650) 645-3913 Fax: (650) 645-3700 > Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > www.actuate.com<http://www.actuate.com/> > >
