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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-420) Software Grant vs. iCLA / CCLA for
code donations
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-420?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16670980#comment-16670980 ]
Roman Shaposhnik commented on LEGAL-420:
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With my VP legal hat on, I feel that CCLA indeed may be preferable to the software grant from the foundation's point of view. Of course, if the donor of the codebase insists on submitting software grant instead we should allow it for now. With that in mind, I think your last sentence makes perfect sense [~clr]
> Software Grant vs. iCLA / CCLA for code donations
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LEGAL-420
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-420
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Bertrand Delacretaz
> Priority: Major
>
> The IP clearance template at [1] says:
> {quote}Either an Individual CLA or Corporate CLA is preferred to a Software Grant. All owners of IP must sign one of the three documents and send to secretary
> {quote}
> To me it's unclear whether we can omit the requirement for a Software Grant when incoming software clearly appears to belong to a corporation, being hosted for example at github.com/<corporation name>
> Are iCLAs from all authors of the incoming software sufficient in such a case?
> The "all owners of IP must sign" statement quoted above makes me unsure.
> We have a concrete case at INCUBATOR-222, a donation where all contributors to the incoming code have an iCLA on file, but which clearly comes from IBM.
> [1] [http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/content/ip-clearance/ip-clearance-template.xml]
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