Hello,

please find the Linaro CLA that passed many large companies lawyers for IP:
http://opendataplane.org/contributor/individual/

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

I wonder how to read "Need for a CLA is a problem for some contributors due
to the need to get legal approval."

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".

Cordially,

FF

On 1 December 2016 at 19:50, Dave Neary <dneary@redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/01/2016 01:41 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > The Apache Software Foundation requires CLAs with copyright assignment
> > to the foundation for official Apache projects - this is to allow for
> > future license changes (an Apache v3 license), and also reflects some of
> > the difficulties of a 30 year old project (several of the original
> > copyright holders are no longer with the project, or have died, and the
> > succession rights for copyright materials can sometimes result in
> > unfortunate conflicts between the estates and open source projects).
>
> A small but important correction: The ASF CLA is a grant of a broad
> copyright license which allows, among other things, the ASF to
> redistribute the software under a different license. It is not a
> copyright assignment.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>
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> Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy
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