[TYPO3-50-general] Contributing to TYPO3 v5 / FLOW3: License Agreement

[Christoph Blömer]

Hi Robert,
Do you send this message every hour?
Now I got it the third time.

Greetings
Christoph

Robert Lemke schrieb:
> Hi everybody,
>
> during the last months we have discussed among the v5 team members and 
> the TYPO3 Association's active members if we should require all 
> contributors to sign a Contributors License Agreement. We have a 
> looked at a few other Open Source projects and came to the conclusion 
> that the TYPO3 project, the developers and the Association can benefit 
> a lot from it because it protects everyone involved from possible 
> claims and grants a clear situation regarding the intelectual property 
> of all contributions.
>
> Together with Karsten I have taken the Apache Contributor License 
> Agreement and apllied some cosmetic changes (replace "Foundation" by 
> "Association" etc.). You find TYPO3's CLA along with some more 
> information on this page:
>
>    http://typo3.org/about/licenses
>
> Daniel will publish some news about it soon which will surely give 
> some more background information.
>
> Now I ask everyone who already contributed to the TYPO3 v5 and / or 
> FLOW3 project to download a CLA and fax it to the Association. A 
> signed CLA is required from now on in order to get commit rights to 
> the relevant projects. It is also important that we only accept 
> patches and other contributions (documentation etc.) only from people 
> who signed the CLA.
>
> For that purpose I have added a flag "has signed CLA" to the typo3.org 
> frontend users. This flag will be set by our administration team 
> (Jens-Kristian and Gina) for those who fax a signed CLA. The flag is 
> also propagated to the Forge user records and will soon be displayed 
> in everyone's user details (Sebastian or Martin, can you help me with 
> that?).
>
> Although it's only required currently by those who contributed to the 
> code, it is of course free to everyone of you to already sign the CLA 
> in order to make future contributions easier. Being the biggest 
> contributor so far (I mean "big" in terms of commits ...) I am 
> convinced that this license is a very good step for us as too, as it 
> protects us from possible claims and asserts that the TYPO3 project 
> stays free and can't be sued by some company who claims rights on some 
> old contributed code.
>
> If you have any questions, just ask them here in this list or ask our 
> admin team (info -at- typo3.org).
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> Robert
>
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