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Re: Is CLA needed for submitting patches?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:53:16 -0500

"Jon Foster" <Jon.Foster_at_cabot.co.uk> writes:
> A quick legal/management question:
>
> If I'm submitting patches to Apache Subversion, do I need to fill out a
> Contributor License Agreement*? Or is that only for comitters?

I'm not a lawyer, but I think it would be for any non-trivial patch.
After all, what copyright law cares about is simply whether code you
wrote ends up in Subversion -- not whether it got there via your
committing it directly versus someone else committing it on your behalf.

-Karl
Received on 2009-12-07 20:53:49 CET

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