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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com> on 2013/05/28 21:32:35 UTC
Guidelines for attributed contributions
We have some code potentially being contributed to the Pivot project,
and they would like to (somehow) attribute the code to the original
author, something like having a "Developed by so-and-so of such-and-such
company" statement somewhere, I assume permanently I'm not sure how to
handle this. Can someone point me to guidelines? Does legal need to be
involved at all? The code consists of some patches to existing files
and a handful or so of brand new files with all original code. Is there
an agreement they should fill out above and beyond the grant of ASF
rights if they post a patch to JIRA? AFAIK none of the other code in
the Pivot project has any such attribution within the body of the code,
although the "NOTICE" file states that the code was originally developed
at VMWare and was donated to the ASF.
Thanks,
~Roger Whitcomb
Apache Pivot PMC Chair
RE: Guidelines for attributed contributions
Posted by "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com>.
Thanks, Daniel. I will let them know and will format the code
accordingly if/when we accept the contributions.
~Roger Whitcomb
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From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s@daniel.shahaf.name]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:57 PM
To: Roger L. Whitcomb
Cc: legal-discuss@apache.org
Subject: Re: Guidelines for attributed contributions
Roger L. Whitcomb wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 15:32:35 -0400:
> We have some code potentially being contributed to the Pivot project,
> and they would like to (somehow) attribute the code to the original
> author, something like having a "Developed by so-and-so of
such-and-such
> company" statement somewhere, I assume permanently I'm not sure how
to
> handle this. Can someone point me to guidelines? Does legal need to
be
There should be something on the website about @author tags being
discouraged. The point is to prevent the impression that a piece of
code is "owned" by a single author / maintainer, though, so "This module
was originally contributed by X to the Y project" should be fine?
(Sorry, no time to dig a link right now.)
> involved at all? The code consists of some patches to existing files
> and a handful or so of brand new files with all original code. Is
there
> an agreement they should fill out above and beyond the grant of ASF
> rights if they post a patch to JIRA? AFAIK none of the other code in
> the Pivot project has any such attribution within the body of the
code,
> although the "NOTICE" file states that the code was originally
developed
> at VMWare and was donated to the ASF.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Roger Whitcomb
>
> Apache Pivot PMC Chair
>
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Re: Guidelines for attributed contributions
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
Roger L. Whitcomb wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 15:32:35 -0400:
> We have some code potentially being contributed to the Pivot project,
> and they would like to (somehow) attribute the code to the original
> author, something like having a "Developed by so-and-so of such-and-such
> company" statement somewhere, I assume permanently I'm not sure how to
> handle this. Can someone point me to guidelines? Does legal need to be
There should be something on the website about @author tags being
discouraged. The point is to prevent the impression that a piece of
code is "owned" by a single author / maintainer, though, so "This module
was originally contributed by X to the Y project" should be fine?
(Sorry, no time to dig a link right now.)
> involved at all? The code consists of some patches to existing files
> and a handful or so of brand new files with all original code. Is there
> an agreement they should fill out above and beyond the grant of ASF
> rights if they post a patch to JIRA? AFAIK none of the other code in
> the Pivot project has any such attribution within the body of the code,
> although the "NOTICE" file states that the code was originally developed
> at VMWare and was donated to the ASF.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Roger Whitcomb
>
> Apache Pivot PMC Chair
>
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Re: Guidelines for attributed contributions
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
Hi,
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb
<Ro...@actian.com> wrote:
> We have some code potentially being contributed to the Pivot project, and
> they would like to (somehow) attribute the code to the original author,
> something like having a “Developed by so-and-so of such-and-such company”
> statement somewhere, I assume permanently...
I like https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/BRANCH_2_1_X/CREDITS.txt
for example, it's informal, quite visible and does avoids polluting
the code with statements that might become irrelevant as the code
evolves.
-Bertrand
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