July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 12m
English
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has recently begun to require its contributors to submit a signed Contributor License Agreement. This agreement is copied in the Appendices.
The Apache Contributor License Agreement is intended to convey to ASF all necessary rights to the contributor's intellectual property so that ASF can do what it wishes with those Contributions. The agreement itself asserts that the goal of the Contributor License Agreement is to protect the Contributor:
This license is for your protection as a Contributor of software to the Foundation and does not change your right to use your own contributions for any other purpose. (Apache Contributor License Agreement, initial paragraph.)
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