Re: ICLA and CCLA -- was Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-05-03 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:45 AM, eduardo pelegri-llopart wrote: > Some employee contracts have a variation of a statement that says "IP > generated by the employee in is owned by the > company".  Ignoring how/whether local laws (like California) void this... a > company can argue that they don't

ICLA and CCLA -- was Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-05-03 Thread eduardo pelegri-llopart
(Follow-up to my mail from a while back) We (RIM) have started using a slightly modified version of Apache's ICLA & CCLA for our nascient Open Source projects. So far, so good. But there is an angle where I could benefit again from your experience. Some employee contracts have a variation of a

Re: Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-02-16 Thread Craig L Russell
Cool. Always nice to see communities in sync. Craig On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:18 AM, eduardo pelegri-llopart wrote: Perfect. Thanks. It's always very useful to be able to borrow best practices from other communities. - eduard/o On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Matthias Wessendorf > wrote: H

Re: Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-02-16 Thread eduardo pelegri-llopart
Perfect. Thanks. It's always very useful to be able to borrow best practices from other communities. - eduard/o On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > there is a list of committers (they have all submitted the ICLA) and > the page also contains the cont

Re: Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-02-16 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
Hi Eduardo, there is a list of committers (they have all submitted the ICLA) and the page also contains the contributors (non-committers), that signed the individual CLA: http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html (search for "Persons with signed CLAs but are not committers") HTH, Matthias O

Re: Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-02-15 Thread eduardo pelegri-llopart
Hi Craig! On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Craig L Russell wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > Well, I remember you from Sun. ;-) :-) > I think the situation isn't well-understood. Once you sign the ICLA, your > contributions are covered. If you don't want future contributions to be > covered by the agree

Re: Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-02-15 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Eduardo, Well, I remember you from Sun. ;-) On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:34 PM, eduardo pelegri-llopart wrote: Hi there. Matthias suggested this would be a good alias to ask for experience at ASF on Contribution Agreements. Some of you may remember me from my Sun days; I'm now working at RIM and

Experience with Contribution Agreements

2011-02-15 Thread eduardo pelegri-llopart
Hi there. Matthias suggested this would be a good alias to ask for experience at ASF on Contribution Agreements. Some of you may remember me from my Sun days; I'm now working at RIM and as I apply my experience to our projects I notice situations I had not considered/encountered at Sun [2,3]. Th