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--- Anil Patel <
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> Chris,
> How is the work done at the developer's conference
> is different then work
> done at my Home. As long as I create a Jira Issue
> and submit a patch there.
> The advantage will be I'll have commiter accros the
> table who can get it
> from Jira and review and apply the patch.
>
> Anil Patel
If you're the only worker on the the contribution,
there is no difference, however as soon as you get two
hands (or minds) on that contribution there is
collaboration and there's a potential issue. Only one
of you can submit the patch to JIRA or to SVN.
Therefore only one of you has formally granted license
to Apache. There is no physical proof that the person
who collaborated and has copyright of the material
he's contributing or has granted sufficient license to
Apache (or relinquished enough rights to another
entity so that they may legally grant license to
Apache) for inclusion of that code enhancement in the
project and in all the liberal ways that Apache can
use a contribution. Without additional consideration,
the person pressing the Apache grant radio button in
JIRA is lying as they are not the "Licensor" and
cannot enter the agreement.
Because the Developers Conference is not an official
Apache gathering, I would suspect any collaborated
contribution would be a similar scenario to the
sandbox scenario that is being discussed on the
general-incubator ML, regardless of the level of
involvement of a committer in the conference. (If
that were the case, I would just need to ask one of
the committers to have involvement in the sandbox. I
don't think that is sufficient to cross the legal
hurdle of who the licensor is.)
IANAL, and I'm not sure what the potential
repercussions are. I'm simply asking you guys to
consider what the potential repercussions are because
it would be an obvious shame for all that hard work to
have the potential to be subject to the scrutiny of IP
law when we're all here just trying to contribute in
the spirit of open source.
Regards,
Chris