We could make everyone agree, and make it really easy, like a web form. I could not find an form version of the Eclipse CLA.
On 28/05/13 14:18, Jody Garnett wrote: > How about we write the thing up clearly in the developers guide, and we > add a description into JIRA when they report the bug (we already have > our own custom descriptions). We may be able to link to the correct page > of the developers guide. >> I am wondering if we can instead have a contributor-agreement-lite, >> which does not require access to a printer and scanner. I think this >> page was meant to have checkboxes and an accept button: >> http://www.eclipse.org/legal/CLA.php > (It says at the top that it is a reference copy, to actually fill it in > you login to the eclipse website and they have a checkbox or form thing > you can fill in). >> Anyone have experience with other open source projects that >> have addressed this issue? > Here is an example from webkit > http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html > > The phrase they use is: /If you make substantive changes to a file, you > may wish to add a copyright line for yourself or for the company on > whose behalf you work. / > / > / > This kind of brings us full circle - what is a "substantive" change? In > a sense it does not really matter as long as we are clear… > > Story could go something like: > > * Fill in code contribution agreement … when introducing a new method? > > Downside is we actually like new methods introduced for clarity, and do > not want to encourage super long methods. > > * Fill in agreement when new public or protected method? > > That is a bit safer, as changing API = code contribution agreement. > Downside is we like to encourage creation of tests with each patch. > > * Fill in code contribution agreement when creating a new file. > > (original recommendation) > > It makes sense as have a new "item" to track copyright on, and the > header needs to be filled in anyways (so it is not out of our way to > think about copyright). > > > Jody > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
