On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 15:28 +0000, Radcliffe, Mark wrote:
> Thanks.  The more critical issue is that we need to be sensitive to
> our users to ensure that we have the right necessary to include the
> "trivial contribution" in OpenStack under the Apache license. If the
> "trivial contribution" is code is likely to be copyrightable (a very
> low standard).  All projects require a license to the code, even if
> they choose to use the project "license" as the license (such as
> Linux).

I don't feel I can explain to contributors why they need to do anything
other than license the code (to the world) under the Apache License in
order for the contribution to be included in OpenStack under the Apache
License.

How do authors contribute patches through Launchpad explicitly under the Apache License? I'd like this to be clearly documented as an alternative to the CLA section on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute so that we can ask authors to simply copy/paste a licensing statement into Launchpad (or whatever it takes), and then we can carry the patch through gerrit on their behalf.

I'd rather avoid needing to consider some subjective measure of "triviality," especially if authors are willing/able to license their patches as OpenStack requires outside of the CLA.