RE: [cdt-dev] Patch proposal forbugzilla154854-gdbconsoleenhancements

[Chris Recoskie <recoskie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The legal statement comes in the form of the contribution questionnaire.
See http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ContributionQuestionnairePart1-v1.0.php

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Chris Recoskie
Team Lead, IBM CDT Team
IBM Toronto
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt



                                                                           
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Hi CDT committers,

Currently, the "significant contribution" limit seems to
be at 250 lines of code, including configuration files: See
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf

I'm not exactly sure what rules you follow on CDT,
but for Target Management we have come up with some
nice guidelines:
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/development/committer_howto.php

Basically we ask contriutors to add some legal statement
like "I wrote this myself" to the bugzilla entry upfront,
in order to clarify the Legal things without having extra
E-mail exchange.

Regarding PMC approval, Bjorn has blogged that a single
PMC member's opinion may stand for the entire PMC:
http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2006/06/pmc-question.html

This means its sufficient if you send an E-Mail to the
Tools PMC Mailing list, asking OK to apply the contribution,
and you get at least one PMC member's OK (that would be
Doug S I guess). Other PMC members can veto this later,
then you'd have to remove the patch again, but this is
really unlikely I guess.

But as I said, each project has its own guidelines, and
DougS is your master -- I just thought that giving you
the two links above might be helpful.

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ploett, Norbert
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:47 AM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: AW: [cdt-dev] AW: [cdt-patch] Patch proposal
> forbugzilla154854-gdbconsoleenhancements
>
> Davide / (Mikhail),
>
> I also have this 100-line rule in the back of my head and I
> assume that you will need to fill in the
> http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ContributionQuestionnairePart1-v1.0.php
>
> This implies that we must get PMC approval for your
> contribution, I'll have yet to find out how this is obtained
> (anyone knows?).
>
> I also think that somehow you must prove that your company
> lets you put your contributions under the EPL (as you stated
> you would in the headers of the new files ...)
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Norbert
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