Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Sorry about my false answer then, I take it back On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Matthieu Morel wrote: > This is clear now, there is no room for doubt. > > Thanks ! > > Matthieu > > > On Mar 4, 2013, at 14:42 , Benson Margulies wrote: > > > You DO NOT NEED AN ICLA from these people. > > > > Und

Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Matthieu Morel
This is clear now, there is no room for doubt. Thanks ! Matthieu On Mar 4, 2013, at 14:42 , Benson Margulies wrote: > You DO NOT NEED AN ICLA from these people. > > Under the terms of the AL, any contribution made back to the ASF on > ASF infrastructure, such as via a mailing list, JIRA, or B

Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > You DO NOT NEED AN ICLA from these people. > > Under the terms of the AL, any contribution made back to the ASF on > ASF infrastructure, such as via a mailing list, JIRA, or Bugzilla, is > licensed to the foundation. The JIRA checkbox exist

Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Benson Margulies
You DO NOT NEED AN ICLA from these people. Under the terms of the AL, any contribution made back to the ASF on ASF infrastructure, such as via a mailing list, JIRA, or Bugzilla, is licensed to the foundation. The JIRA checkbox existed to give people an easy way to _avoid_ contributing something. T

Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Upayavira
Usual IANAL clause, but, reading the AL2.0 itself, it says: "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 Wor

Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Matthieu Morel wrote: > Hi, > > In the S4 project we have some recent patches from non-committers, but we > have doubts on how to integrate them. > > In the past, the Jira system had a clearly defined way for the contributor > to mark the patch as granted to

Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?

2013-03-04 Thread Matthieu Morel
Hi, In the S4 project we have some recent patches from non-committers, but we have doubts on how to integrate them. In the past, the Jira system had a clearly defined way for the contributor to mark the patch as granted to the ASF. Typically (wording from the hbase book): "The patch should be