Thanks Rob. Not a lawyer, thankfully, but always good to have a knowledgeable person around.
We have actually voted Laimis in as a committer - being crazy busy myself so left Prescott the honor of announcing that :) -- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Lucene.NET committer and PMC member On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote: > Itamar > > I notice you have been asking everyone to sign an ICLA before you'll > accept any pull requests which is actually unnecessary. ICLAs are only > required for ASF committers (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas) - > > "A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given > commit rights to an ASF project." > > The Apache License has a clause that explicitly covers contributions > (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#contributions) so anything > submitted through the formal channels to the project is a valid > contribution unless the contributor explicitly states otherwise. Of > course a committer still has to merge and push the changes and the buck > stops with the committer in terms of ensuring the IP of the contribution > is clean. > > Of course ICLAs are still desirable particularly when people are making > larger contributions but they should not block you from reviewing and > accepting pull requests while you wait for one to be submitted > (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas): > > "The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to > the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via postal mail, fax or > email) an Individual Contributor License Agreement > <http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt>" > > The key word being "desires", unless someone has commit rights to the > project they don't require an ICLA since the Apache License already covers > their contributions. > > Btw if the PMC isn't already you should be thinking about offering some of > these folks who have been contributing for a while now committer rights. > Note that giving people committer rights does not prevent you from keeping > the projects existing pull request, review then commit workflow. > > Regards, > > Rob > > > > > >
