Re: Proposal: All Contributors to have a signed Apache ICLA

[Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

In general that is a good idea. Contributing has implications, not only for
contributors, but also every one else (including the ASF itself) who
touches the contribution. Everybody must be aware of those implications and
the means to deal with these. The iCLA helps in that respect.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

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Re: Proposal: All Contributors to have a signed Apache ICLA

[Ron Wheeler <rw...@artifact-software.com>]

http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html also discusses the 
need to look at Corporate CLAs to cover the case where employees have IP 
agreements with their employers that might cover work done in or outside 
of working hours.

The important thing is to be sure that NONE of the content is ever 
subject to litigation by a person or company that can claim that they 
own parts of the software or documentation.

This is specially true of companies that are incorporating OFBiz into 
products that they deliver.
Having your client sued for IP infringement for using the ERP that you 
provided, will not be fun.

Ron

On 22/11/2014 5:41 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In general that is a good idea. Contributing has implications, not only for
> contributors, but also every one else (including the ASF itself) who
> touches the contribution. Everybody must be aware of those implications and
> the means to deal with these. The iCLA helps in that respect.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com
>


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