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| <a name="Apache UIMA Contribution Policy"><h1><img src="images/UIMA_4sq50tightCropSolid.png"/> Apache UIMA Contribution Policy</h1></a> |
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| <blockquote class="sectionBody"> |
| <h3 align="center"><font color="#FF0000"><b>Note: This is a working draft document.</b> |
| </font></h3> |
| <p align="center">Discussion of this document is occuring on the uima-dev mailing list.</p> |
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| <p> |
| The Apache UIMA™ Contribution Policy is summarized below: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| We are working to ensure that we have broad participation from the community, |
| at all experience levels and interests, but at the same time we are working to |
| minimize any risks to the ASF, the project and our community due to |
| inappropriate contributions of the intellectual property of others. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| We adhere to the standard Apache process and contribution agreements. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| We require every contributor to fill out the standard Apache |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Individual |
| Contributors License Agreement</a>. |
| <ul><li><p><b>Exception</b> - very small contributions such as fixing spelling errors, where the content |
| is small enough to not be considered intellectual property, can be submitted by a contributor |
| as a patch, without an ICLA on file for that contributor. The contributor must check the the |
| box on the patch submission form granting the ASF rights to the contribution under the Apache 2.0 |
| license.</p> |
| <p>The purpose of this exception is to lower the barrier for new contributors to make contributions.</p></li></ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a name="Strict Limits on Committer Contributions"> |
| <h2>Strict Limits on Committer Contributions |
| </h2> |
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| <blockquote class="subsectionBody"> |
| <p> |
| Committers can commit contributions to the repositories |
| that they personally created <i>specifically for contribution to Apache UIMA.</i> |
| This is the standard stream of fresh original work, small enhancements |
| and patches that are the normal flow of project life. |
| </p> |
| <p>Committers can commit contributions to the repositories that |
| were created by another contributor that do not have commit access, |
| and were created <i>specifically for contribution to Apache UIMA</i>, |
| provided: </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>the contributor has a signed Contributors License Agreement |
| listed with Apache |
| |
| </li> |
| <li>the contribution is made as an attachement to a UIMA Jira issue</li> |
| <li>the attachment is marked as "ASF Granted License", indicating that |
| the contributer has granted a license for the attachment sufficient to enable |
| the UIMA Project to incorporate the attachement and distribute the result |
| under the Apache 2.0 license</li> |
| |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| The purpose of |
| this rule is to explicitly prohibit re-purposed "bulk" code |
| <!-- that the contributor believes is their original work--> from being |
| added to the codebase without explicit oversight and acceptance. |
| We can still accept contributions like that, but will track them explicitly |
| as Bulk Contributions. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="Policy for Committers"> |
| <h2>Policy for Committers |
| </h2> |
| </a> |
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| <blockquote class="subsectionBody"> |
| <p> |
| Each committer is required to complete a standard |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas">Apache Individual Contributor License Agreement</a>. |
| This document asserts that the contributor is licensing their |
| material to the ASF under the Apache license and is their original work (there's some other details). |
| This document is maintained and managed by the Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| We encourage every committer, if appropriate, to have their employer execute a |
| <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/">Apache Corporate Contributor License Agreement</a>. |
| Note that this is recommended, but not required. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="Policy for Bulk Contributions"> |
| <h2>Policy for Bulk Contributions |
| </h2> |
| </a> |
| </td></tr> |
| <tr><td> |
| <blockquote class="subsectionBody"> |
| <p> |
| Any software or other contribution that was not created explicitly for |
| Apache UIMA <i>in</i> the Apache UIMA project is considered to |
| be a 'Bulk Contribution'. This status is independent of the purpose |
| or author of said contribution. For example: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> Personal utilities that a committer always uses on projects</li> |
| <li> Code from other open source projects that have a compatible license</li> |
| <li> Code from proprietary projects for which the donor has clear title</li> |
| <li> Larger pieces of Code being committed on behalf of other contributors, typically using a Software Grant</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Any Bulk Contribution: |
| </p> |
| <ol> |
| <li> Will be donated via the project bug tracking system (JIRA) as a contribution under the Apache License.</li> |
| <li> Will be accompanied by a Software Grant (for large contributions) or ICLA (small contributions) |
| which will be registered with the Apache Incubator</li> |
| <li> done using a Software Grant will be registered in the Apache UIMA Bulk Contribution Repository |
| via a <a href="bulk-contribution-checklist.html">Bulk Contribution Checklist</a></li> |
| </ol> |
| <p> |
| The Bulk Contribution Repository is a separate place in our administrative SVN in which records |
| the Bulk Contribution Checklist and other checklist information, for each contribution. |
| We do this to |
| ensure that we have a clear and unambiguous record of any repurposed software that was contributed or |
| brought into the project source tree. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| We strongly urge any potential contributor to carefully examine their candidate for contribution (for instance, |
| run code scans to insure the contributed code doesn't accidentally contain things that could |
| cause licensing difficulties) |
| before offering to the project. To that end, we have started collecting information on tools and |
| other aids to help in this process, and it can be found on this page about |
| <a href="code-scan-tools.html">code scan tools</a>. |
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