Suggested text:

> Sign and submit the Apache Contributor License Agreement if you haven't 
> already. Note that small patches & bug-fixes do not require a CLA as they are 
> covered by Apache License clause 5.


On 29 June 2016 at 16:59, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> wrote:
> https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/blob/trunk/CONTRIBUTING.md#submitting-changes
> says
>
>
>> Sign the Contributor License Agreement if you haven't already.
>> Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
>> Submit a pull request to the repository in the apache organization.
>
> However I don't think we should require a CLA for small patches - this
> is not an ASF requirement as such patches would still be covered by
> the Apache License. We should still require an ICLA for new additions
> and anything that looks "large" or "clever".
>
> This was mentioned in http://apetro.ghost.io/apache-contributors-no-cla/
> and
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d29ad962938540f2f2b5cc70e7f0b3d3ec347fc5c619a6498a141fdc@%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E
>
>
> Am I OK to update that README to clarify that ICLA is not always
> needed, or do we have such a policy of always requiring ICLA within
> Apache Commons?
>
>
> We should also update https://commons.apache.org/patches.html
> to describe Pull Requests and ICLAs.
>
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718



-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes
Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718

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