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[John Arbash Meinel]

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Adrian Wilkins wrote:
> On 03/12/09 11:34, bazaar-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
>> If I were to ship it would I need to sign the Canonical Contributor
>> Agreement?
>>
>> I am developing it for my company, but they agree that it would be
>> good to push
>> it into the community.  My contract vests all the stuff I develop in
>> company
>> time with the company.
> 
> As a separate plugin, I don't think you need to sign the CCA ; you'd
> need to do that for significant contributions to the Bazaar core or
> other Canonical project. (Quite what counts as "significant", I don't
> know, I've got a number of small patches in there but have never been
> asked to sign a CCA).

Canonical's official policy is that a 1 line change is considered
"significant". The relevant line is point 2 in the faq
http://www.canonical.com/contributors/faq


2) Is it necessary even for a tiny patch?

Yes. International copyright law has no consistent standard on what
constitutes a copyrightable contribution, so we have to play it safe.
You may have heard elsewhere that "ten lines or so" is a standard
threshold, but that's actually a rough rule of thumb and only applies in
some countries anyway. Canonical is an international company and needs
to be on solid legal ground around the world.


I don't think we were being very strict on this in the past, but
management has since requested that we pay more attention to this fact.

John
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