On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Janne Jalkanen <janne.jalka...@ecyrd.com>wrote:
> I don't mind championing you but as mentioned by others, there will be >> several hurdles to overcome. To change the license, you will have to get >> an >> agreement from everybody who ever contributed a patch to the source you >> plan >> to incubate, even for a minor bug fix. I don't know how painful that would >> be in your case. >> > > IANAL, but why would you need a CLA for a minor bug fix or small patch? For > copyright to form, the item needs to be long and complex enough to be > recognized as original - a few lines don't a copyrighted work make. > Right, I probably pushed that exaggeration to make a point a little too much. Matthieu > > With JSPWiki, we took CLAs from major contributors (of which there were > over 20, that was quite a job) when they were identifiable, and rewrote the > sections which didn't have an identifiable author or for which CLA could not > be obtained. > > /Janne > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
