On Thursday 16 of October 2014 19:16:32 Timothy Pearson wrote: > All, > > After much consideration I have decided it would be safest to require our > developers to formalize their open-source contributions with a CLA. > > The CLA on the main TDE site does not transfer copyright or do anything > objectionable like Canonical's old CLA did; it simply formalizes the > long-standing intuitive agreement between open-source contributors and > open-source projects. Specifically, contributors grant a license to use, > redistribute, modify, etc. the contributed work under our approved > open-source licenses (sadly this formalization is required even though > most people would think contributing to an open source project > automatically granted those rights!), waive any patent rights they may > otherwise hold for the contribution (some people contribute then sue for > high damages), etc. Fairly standard stuff but in the increasingly > litigious environment of the United States the risks are just too high to > continue without a CLA. > > I have not arrived at this decision lightly, but have tried to keep the > CLA as minimal as possible while protecting the project. I don't believe > the CLA grants any further rights to the project than already intuitively > granted when people contribute to an open source project; if I am in error > please let me know ASAP! > > Until I get feedback from the core team this is not mandatory for anyone > who has already contributed to the project. Above all I do not want to > alienate the core development team without whom this project would not be > possible. > > The agreements (and rationale) are available here: > https://www.trinitydesktop.org/cla/ > > Thank you for your consideration, > > Timothy Pearson > Trinity Desktop Project > I have a question: I often process patches from Fran�ois, making adjustments as needed, and then commit. For such posts will be listed as an author Fran�ois and as Signed-off will be mine. Is this the correct procedure? Or contributions should be Signed-off at the same time by Fran�ois? If so, how should it be implemented technically? Similarly, in cases of occasional contributors who do not have commit access? For example, during the integration of the translations. -- Sl�vek