On 2011-02-21, Troy Howard wrote: > As a general question about process around accepting software > contributions, one thing I'm a little confused about: How does > accepting this contribution differ from a normal contribution?
Not much. > By that I mean, suppose a developer contributed a significant patch to > our code, through the normal process or attaching a patch to a JIRA > ticket. My understanding is that they don't need to sign a CLA or > other legal paperwork to do that, as long as the committers who > ultimately apply the patch have those on file. As long as they have checked the checkbox that says "yes, you may use it". > What are the criteria that determine when something needs additional > legal paperwork (like a grant/contributor CLA/etc)? This is some sort of gray area. There are certain cases where the answer is easy. If we talk about a few lines of patch then we don't need a CLA, if it is a big existing project with several contributors we need CLAs or SGAs. For anything in between it is a judgement call. In Luke.NET's case we have at least two people who've worked on the code base. Even if Aaron attached the code to a JIRA ticket and checked the "this is a contribution" checkbox that could not cover the work of his collegue. Stefan
