Apache River
Apache River

Apache River Contribution Policy

Due to the oversight which we wish to provide for the River community, the following process is used for committers, contributors and their contributions.

In summary :

  • We encourage all contributors (not just committers) to have a Individual Contributor License Agreement on file with the ASF.
  • All contributions that are of existing code - code that wasn't developed inside of the project from scratch - should be first submitted as a JIRA, and then brought into the SVN repository. This applies even if the contributor is an existing committer, to help make it clear where the external, re-purposed contributions are coming from.
  • Of course, we follow all existing Apache IP contribution processes.

Policy for Committers

Each committer is required to complete a standard Apache Individual Contributor License Agreement. This document asserts that the contributor is licensing their material to the ASF under the Apache license and it is their original work (there's some other details). This document is maintained and managed by the Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation.

We encourage every committer, if appropriate, to have their employer execute a Apache Corporate Contributor License Agreement. Note that this is recommended, but not required.

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