On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
Actually, it is only needed from everyone who might own copyright to some part of the work. So, it is those people who have contributed functionality greater than a simple bug fix. OTOH, the mentors should be aware that, because this work is already licensed under BSD terms, there is no LEGAL risk to the foundation ifwe can't get all the signatures -- those remaining are simply considered reuse of BSD-licensed code. However, we still want the CLAs for socialreasons and to confirm that moving the contributions to Apache Licenseis a voluntary act. Also, it reduces the vulnerability of the originalOFBiz group if we obtain this permission now, while their contributors are still in the mood.
I guess we'll start with everyone that has been a committer or who has submitted a patch. For OFBiz this will be a fairly large list, I'm guessing around 100-200 people. Some of these have not been involved for a long time as people have been involved on and off over the nearly 5 years of the project so far. I guess once we get down the road a bit and find out who we can't get in contact with or who won't sign an iCLA we can decide how to resolve those issues...
-David
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