Hi, I'm the author of an open source project which project grew out of an ASF-mentored Google Summer of Code project three years ago. This project has been in constant development ever since, and has grown into a mature code-base, used in production in several places. I am interested in contributing this project back to ASF, and it seems like the way to do that is by submitting it as an incubator project.
I have a question regarding licensing. I developed part of this project during my current employment, and my employer gave me permission to publish my work under an Apache 2 license on Github. I believe they will be supportive of my request to submit the project to ASF. However, I will be changing my employment soon (they are aware of this), and so I would like to resolve all the IP issues with them now, while I am still at the company. I would therefore like to verify that, in order to contribute the project to ASF, they will be required to sign a Corporate CLA, and a Software Grant Agreement. I would also like to check if there is any issue with having them sign these documents early in the process, before I submit the Incubator proposal? Is there anything else I should be aware of at this stage? Thanks for your attention, and I look forward to receiving your comments. Jacob Beard
