That's great news, Steve! Thanks for having this discussion and achieving this outcome.
I personally hope we can do the same for the other projects such as Validator, Search and OGM. 2017-08-07 23:27 GMT+02:00 Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org>: > Currently we have had to rely on a less-than-ideal CLA approach as part of > the process for accepting a contribution. That CLA app is a hassle for > contributors and it is a head-ache for the folks who manage them. So in an > effort to stream-line this process, we will be making the following changes > to this process: > > 1. We will no longer be using that CLA app. > 2. CONTRIBUTING.MD will be updated to indicate that developers > implicitly agree to contributing their contributions under the terms of > the > pertinent license (LGPL generally). Some documentation and some website > pages refer to the CLA process and will be updated to point to the > CONTRIBUTING.MD file directly. > 3. Did I say we would no longer be using the CLA app? ;) > > The end result is that when we process contributions (whether PR, patch > attached to Jira, etc) we no longer need to ask the contributor to sign the > CLA - such approval is implicitly given. > > Note that this is not really even a change. The proposed process is the > general understanding of contributions to any project in terms of agreement > with the terms of that project's license. The point of the CLA was never > really acceptance of the terms of the license anyway. It was more > identifying contributors of pieces of code in case we ever want to > re-license. > > This all came from a discussion with the Red Hat legal team, so I feel > extremely confident this is a good change and a sound one. > > I will only be making said changes to the ORM repo. I leave it up to the > non-ORM team whether they want to change the non-ORM repos to follow these > guidelines as well. > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
