[PHP-DEV] Re: Is there any CLA document? Who has the copyright of contributed codes?

[Ben Ramsey]

On 10/6/23 05:24, 丸山雅裕 wrote:

Dear The PHP Group

Is there any CLA document?

The legal department cares of "who has the copyright of contributed codes".

https://www.php.net/license/index.php
https://www.php.net/license/contrib-guidelines-code.php
https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Hello. I'm thinking of contributing to PHP within my working hours. My company has some legal check processes before contribution. I suppose The PHP Group has the copyright, is it correct? I've read the following documents, but I'm not sure about it. Regards, Masahiro Maruyama

Masahiro,



First off, a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.





Cheers,
Ben

Thanks for wanting to contribute, and I'm glad to hear your company is interested in letting you contributing during working hours. PHP does not have a CLA. When you contribute code to any open source project, unless you sign a CLA or other document that specifies assignment of copyright, all copyright on the code contributed (if it is copyrightable) remains with the contributor. Depending on the laws in your country, since you're performing the work during work hours, this may mean that your company owns the copyright. While the contributor owns the copyright on their contributions, they are implicitly granting the project (and users of the project) use of their code under the same terms as the main license on the project (unless otherwise stated). I mentioned "if it is copyrightable" because very small changes (i.e., typo fixes and other insignificant, minor changes) may not be copyrightable.

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