David,
The Eclipse IP Policy is set by the Board and administered by the
Eclipse Legal team (the emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx email alias). While you
directed your email to the Technology PMC, your question can only be
answered by the Eclipse Legal team, thus I'm replying here to let you
know that you'll have to wait for the Eclipse Legal team to answer your
question(s).
- Bjorn (for the PMC)
David Whiteman wrote:
I agree with Abel that it seems like
overkill to get PMC approval on all fixes (including simple ones)
provided
by non-committers. Has this always been the process in Eclipse? I
would think not given the volume of contributions typically received.
The
committer guidelines statement seems more reasonable than the
information
provided on the IP poster. Does it make a difference if the
non-committers
are employees of the same company as the submitting committer?
Actually, in rereading the poster,
it
does say "all code" at the top. Does this include any code
contributed for any fix/enhancement, even by committers? Does "under
the supervision of the PMC" mean the same thing as having each
defect/enhancement
individually approved by the PMC? I can't imagine this doing anything
but reducing progress to a slow crawl.
David
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