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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:11:26 -0700
From: Cliff Schmidt <cliffschmidt@gmail.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: a few steps before approving a project
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On 9/1/05, Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com> wrote:
> --On September 1, 2005 10:50:20 AM -0700 Cliff Schmidt
> <cliffschmidt@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > If the answer to one or more of the questions was not simply "yes",
> > then there might be another step or two, such as requiring you or your
> > employer to sign and submit a "software grant".  Some folks might say
> > you always have to sign and submit a software grant for all large
> > contributions, but with my Legal Affairs hat on, I'm not aware of why
> > that would be necessary if the answer to all questions above is "yes".
>=20
> For code developed on our public mailing lists, then I don't think a
> software grant is warranted; but for works developed wholly outside of th=
e
> ASF, I think it is prudent to have the grant on file.  -- justin

Sure - it certainly doesn't hurt, and I don't care enough to debate
this point when there are so many other fun things to debate these
days.  ;-)  I'll wait to discuss this when (if ever) I hear complaints
that the software grant becomes an burden for committers who aren't
sure when a large patch that includes some old functions they wrote
years ago turns into something requiring a software grant.

Cliff

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