Re: [jdt-core-dev] EPL individual contributor agreement

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask this question. I
> spent the day reading the Legal Section of the web site, and couldn't find
> this piece of information.

For a list of contacts at the Eclipse Foundation please see

  http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/contact.php
 
Either "EMO" or "license" should be the contacts you're seeking.

> Do contributors (to EPL licensed projects) need to sign an individual
> contributor license agreement, similar to the Apache CLA? (
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt).
> 
> I'd like to use the Eclipse Public License for the Eclipse IDE for Scala,
> and I got stuck at this point.

Did you read this:
  http://www.eclipse.org/legal/committerguidelines.php
More details are in
  http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Nominating_and_Electing_a_New_Committer
(esp. sect. 1.5)

I think your answer depends on things like:
- Are you planning to move the Scala IDE to Eclipse.org, or do you
   just want to apply the EPL?
  If it's the former, you should directly contact EMO.
  For the latter case I'm not even sure any one at the foundation
  is allowed to actually give legal advice.
- Do you really mean "contributor" or "committer" (in the sense
  defined in the committer guidelines)? In short: at Eclipse.org 
  committer do need to sign an agreement, contributors agree to 
  the conditions by attaching a patch to bugzilla and clicking "submit" 
  (for small contributions). Large contributions have to be tracked 
  with more dilligence.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.

HTH,
Stephan