On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffu...@tutopia.com> wrote: > OpenOffice is probably a special case wrt patents and > that's a special strength behind the Apache License so > I think it's good in case of big contributions (like > IBM's) to have such a document but otherwise I don't > think it's standard practice on Apache to ask for > signatures for small contributions.
Under another Apache project, Apache Camel, the JIRA system allows contributions of code and changelists, which requires a box be checked that says the contribution is made under the terms and policies, etc. This is done on a per-contribution basis, and doesn't require a CLA from the contributor. Said contribution would then need to actually be applied by a CLA-submitted committer. Don
