Re: Experience with Contribution Agreements

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 as I apply my experience to our
> projects I notice situations I had not considered/encountered at Sun
> [2,3].
>
> The Apache contribution agreement [1] does not seem to include a
> mechanism by which a signatory of the CA can indicate that future IP
> is no longer covered.  Not something to revoke previous contributions
> but just for the future, say to be clear of his/her intentions.  Is
> that correct?  If so, is it because the need has never arisen?,
> because its hard to do legally?, because it is very easy to do?, or
> something else?  BTW, as far as I know, Sun didn't have any such
> mechanism either.

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 agreement, don't contribute any more.

If you have a test case for a bug you submit, and don't want the test  
case to become part of your contribution, there's a tick box on the  
bug report that says "this is not a contribution".

What is the situation that you need covered?

Regards,

Craig

> Thanks,
>  Eduard/o (Pelegri-Llopart) - OSS @ RIM
>
> [1]http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
> [2]http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.3.pdf
> [3]http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.4.pdf
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Craig L Russell
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