On 1/3/2012 2:02 AM, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Monday, January 2, 2012 6:03:05 PM UTC-5, Christian Boos wrote:
> Besides, even if the license would be the same, another concern
is the
> Apache policy related to contributor license agreements. I now wonder
> if the Bloodhound project will even able to integrate our changes
back
> into their contributed and modified files (in a kind of "regularly
> merge from upstream" workflow), as the changes contributed to Trac
>
> The CLA that Apache committers sign says they have the "right" to commit
> the patch to version control. Whether that right is based on those
> provided by the BSD license, or that the committer has authored their
> own work... they can still make the commit.
>
> In short: the ASF won't have any problems carrying upstream changes into
> its codebase.
>
My question also covered Trac modifications to ALv2-only
files (i.e. those originally contributed by Bloodhound). Will
they also be integrated back? I fear not, otherwise that would
provide an easy way around the CLA which is mandatory on the
Apache side.
-- Christian
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