On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:44 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>wrote:
> > * What is the scope of a patch that requires a contributor > > agreement? > > Van's advise is as follows: > > There is no definite ruling on what constitutes "work" that is > copyright-protected; estimates vary between 10 and 50 lines. > Establishing a rule based on line limits is not supported by > law. Formally, to be on the safe side, paperwork would be needed > for any contribution (no matter how small); this is tedious and > probably unnecessary, as the risk of somebody suing is small. > Also, in that case, there would be a strong case for an implied > license. > > So his recommendation is to put the words > > "By submitting a patch or bug report, you agree to license it under the > Apache Software License, v. 2.0, and further agree that it may be > relicensed as necessary for inclusion in Python or other downstream > projects." > > into the tracker; this should be sufficient for most cases. For > committers, we should continue to require contributor forms. Sounds great to me. Cheers, Tobias
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