Hi Gianugo, > As far as participation of SAP employees in ESME are concerned, you know what to do. I am under the impression that under currect conditions no SAP employee is authorized to sign an individual contributor agreement.
> You understand this means that SAP cannot have committers in the project? CCLAs are fine and required in case individuals contribute corporate IP, but we will still need the ICLA from the specific individual to grant commit access (see http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas). Given SAP's employment agreements in large parts of the world, I don't think that there is a clean separation line between "person acting as employee" and "person acting as individual". This relates to ownership of inventions when acting as an individual, as well as to understanding when an individual who is also an employee inadvertenly contributes corporate IP. We can either go about setting up clear separation lines, but given ESME's scope, I think it would be easier to simply gain internal approval for contributions to ESME by employees, and then handle those contributions through the CCLA. That's what we do for Eclipse as well. Or are you saying that in addition to a signed CCLA, Apache also needs an individiual's CLA ? Best, Michael
