On 3 July 2011 16:59, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > I just asked legal-discuss this very question. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-92. Since your JIRA is at > ASF, this should make it good to go.
Sam quotes: "Contribution" shall mean any work of authorship, including the original version of the Work and any modifications or additions to that Work or Derivative Works thereof, that is intentionally submitted to Licensor for inclusion in the Work by the copyright owner or by an individual or Legal Entity authorized to submit on behalf of the copyright owner. For the purposes of this definition, "submitted" means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the Licensor or its representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, the Licensor for the purpose of discussing and improving the Work, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by the copyright owner as "Not a Contribution." If the "contribution" is a link to some code somewhere then I think it can be argued that the code was never contributed to the ASF. I've asked on the issue, so watch that space for more clarity from our legal team. Ross > . > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Andy Seaborne > <[email protected]> wrote: >> (mentors, mainly) >> >> Suppose a JIRA has patch but it's a link to a file on a non-ASF machine from >> someone who has not signed a xCLA. The "Apache can use it" check box is >> checked. >> >> Can this be accepted as-is, or should/must the contents be placed on the >> JIRA? >> >> The 2 issues I see are >> >> 1/ that the link does not provide a proper record of the contents of the >> file (the contents may change or disappear) >> >> 2/ it's not so clear the submitter has the rights to contribute (could be a >> link to someone's content; it's hard to verify the ownership of link >> content) >> >> When this happened to me, I asked the contributor to attach the patch, which >> they kindly did (more a question to driving JIRA), but to be prepared for >> next time, I wanted to check the situation. >> >> Unless there established practice, I'd not accept linked contributions >> because of 1 and 2 not leaving a trail in JIRA. The only exception might be >> very large contributions - but if it's that large, then a software grant >> would be clearer anyway. >> >> Andy >> > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
