On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Grant Ingersoll<gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: >>> It's not hard to do a grant >> >> From the contributor side, it can be very, very, hard and can >> potentially take a long time. The bigger the company, the harder it >> can be. >> Many may not pursue a contribution at all it if they thought one would >> be required. >> We shouldn't make contributions harder unless it's very necessary. > > When there is doubt as to the legality of the donation, then it isn't a > question of harder or easier. It's just a matter of doing it right.
*When* there is doubt as to the legality of the donation - sure... that's always the case, even when we are dealing with smaller contributions that don't warrant a grant. No one was saying otherwise. But my argument from above remains valid - a software grant is not always a trivial thing and can be very expensive or impossible. We shouldn't impose that unless we think it's really necessary. > when it lives somewhere else in public or was developed by a company or > several individuals, it needs a grant. -1 it *may* need a grant. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
