<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>please find the Linaro CLA that passed many large companies lawyers for IP: <a href="http://opendataplane.org/contributor/individual/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://opendataplane.org/<wbr>contributor/individual/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Compnies that already signed it (not all are listed): ARM, Broadcom, Canonical, Cavium, Cisco, Comcast, Ericsson, ENEA, Facebook, Hisilicon, HP Enterprise, Huawei, MontaVista, Nokia, NXP, Qualcomm, RedHat, Samsung, Socionext, Spreadtrum, ST microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Wind River, ZTE</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder how to read "<span style="font-size:12.8px">Need for a CLA is a problem for some contributors due to the need to get legal approval.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Is it: "let's mask the problem to lawyers because they may NOT allow us to continue our technical fun?" or is it "this is just a burden that may take long and I don't want to lose time".</span></div><div><br></div><div>Cordially,</div><div><br></div><div>FF</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 December 2016 at 19:50, Dave Neary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dneary@redhat.com" target="_blank">dneary@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 12/01/2016 01:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
>> Note that I’m assuming that the combination of Apache 2 and a CLA isn't an option because this seems redundant as both include patent protection. Maybe there are other reasons that would make this a valid combination though.<br>
><br>
> The Apache Software Foundation requires CLAs with copyright assignment<br>
> to the foundation for official Apache projects - this is to allow for<br>
> future license changes (an Apache v3 license), and also reflects some of<br>
> the difficulties of a 30 year old project (several of the original<br>
> copyright holders are no longer with the project, or have died, and the<br>
> succession rights for copyright materials can sometimes result in<br>
> unfortunate conflicts between the estates and open source projects).<br>
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</span>A small but important correction: The ASF CLA is a grant of a broad<br>
copyright license which allows, among other things, the ASF to<br>
redistribute the software under a different license. It is not a<br>
copyright assignment.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Dave.<br>
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Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - <a href="http://community.redhat.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://community.redhat.com</a><br>
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