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Let me add that the idea of this shortcut is (as much as I
see Eclipse Legal Practices), that the contribution is made under some
supervision of the committer in terms of Legal / IP
Requirements.
The committer is still responsible for IP
appropriateness, in terms of 3rd party code copied or 3rd party materials
referenced, proper legal docs (copyright statements in the sources, about.html
files), as well as avoiding any profanity.
Therefore it is good if the committer and the contributor
work closely together when this shortcut is taken.
Also note that Eclipse Legal explicitly does not allow this
shortcut for code that has been written BEFORE a company got engaged with
Eclipse - even if the code was written by the person himself who is now a
committer.
Bjorn, Janet - please correct me if I got anything
wrong...
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems,
Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
Hi
Pawel,
Short
answer: No Eclipse Legal IP review is required, but you must record the
contribution in the IP log. (All patches must be recorded in the IP
log.)
The
EclipseLegalProcessPoster
shows this path on Page 5. Follow the flowchart until you get to this
note:
“i.e.
the committer is an employee of a member company that has signed a Member
Committer Agreement and the submitted code comes from employees of the
same
company.”
This
case was created by Eclipse Legal for patches made by team members of
Committers.
Doug
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