ACTION REQUIRED: Sign your ONF CLA before April 1, 2020!
Ain Indermitte
Hello ONF developers and contributors,
ONF is happy to announce that it is moving to an automated system for Contributor License Agreement (CLA) management. This will make it easier for you to create and manage your Individual and Institutional (Corporate) CLAs. It requires you to take action - log into the CLA Manager, sign a CLA, and add the email and/or GitHub user identities you use to contribute source code. Please sign the CLA and add these identities before April 1, 2020. Starting April 1st, you will not be able to make contributions through GitHub or Gerrit unless you have a valid CLA in place.
More about CLAs:
A CLA is a legal document in which a contributor states that they are entitled to contribute the code/documentation/translation to the project and are willing to have it used in distributions and derivative works. Should there be any kind of legal issue in the future regarding the origins and ownership of any particular piece of code, the project will have the necessary forms on file from the contributor(s) saying they were permitted to make this contribution.
The CLA also ensures that once a contributor has provided a contribution, they cannot try to withdraw permission for its use at a later date. People and companies can therefore use that software, confident that they will not be asked to stop using pieces of the code at a later date.
Whenever a non-ONF contributor wants to submit a contribution to an ONF open source project, they must first sign a CLA. This allows the contributor to retain their ownership in the code submitted while granting ONF the necessary legal rights to use and relicense that contribution. The CLA only needs to be signed once and it covers all unrestricted Apache 2.0 ONF projects.
Note that there are two types of CLAs - Individual and Institutional (Corporate). Most source code contributions made to ONF projects are made on behalf of developers working for corporations that hold copyright to those contributions. You will need to know your company’s process to authorize making open source contributions - in some cases, if your company has an existing membership or partner relationship with ONF, this authorization might have already been given. The CLA Manager will ask you if you have the authority to sign your CLA. If you do, you should sign the Individual CLA. However, if you do not, the CLA Manager suggests a sample email you should send to the person who has this authority. The authorized person should then sign the Institutional CLA and add your email and/or GitHub user identities to the Institutional CLA.
You can find additional information about the ONF CLA process here. Feel free to contact us at he...@opennetworking.org.
Finally, please take a few moments now to sign your CLA in the ONF CLA Manager.
With best regards,
informatio...@opennetworking.org
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