[legal-discuss] Trivial contributions and CLAs

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 14:28:31 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:21:28AM -0500, Dolph Mathews wrote:

> 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.

For OpenStack, this cannot be done under the current rules.

 - RF



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