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Subject: Re: Patches from contributors: missing ASF license inclusion?
From: Matthieu Morel <mmorel@apache.org>
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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:01:46 +0100
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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.
>=20
> 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. There is no need to ask
> casual patchers for ICLAs.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Matthieu Morel <mmorel@apache.org> =
wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> In the S4 project we have some recent patches from non-committers, =
but we have doubts on how to integrate them.
>>=20
>> In the past, the Jira system had a clearly defined way for the =
contributor to mark the patch as granted to the ASF.
>>=20
>> Typically (wording from the hbase book): "The patch should be =
attached to the associated Jira ticket "More Actions -> Attach Files". =
Make sure you click the ASF license inclusion, otherwise the patch can't =
be considered for inclusion".
>>=20
>>=20
>> Unfortunately it seems that with the latest Jira updates, this option =
is not available anymore to contributors.
>>=20
>>=20
>> So, now, what is the proper way to ensure a patch can be included in =
the codebase of an Apache (incubator) project? Do we need contributors, =
even casual ones, to file an ICLA?
>>=20
>>=20
>> Thanks for any clarification!
>>=20
>>=20
>> Matthieu
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