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Re: [adoptium-wg] Applying Patches originally authored by Bellsoft to Temurin jdk11u
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May I suggest you ask the question to "license@xxxxxxxxxxx" (which may
end up on Sharon's desk) to get clarity on how to interpret the terms of
the ECA for this contribution. We can't answer this definitively from
the WG.
Tim
On 04/10/2021 10:04, Martijn Verburg wrote:
Hi all,
This is probably a question for Sharon / the EF.
Tim raised this in a recent WG meeting, but I'll take this line of
investigation as it's a patch from an MSFT employee.
Mostly paraphrasing Tim here:
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We have a question for you about the contribution from Stephanie Crate
(one of my engineers) for the Alpine musl backport to temurin-jdk11u.
The complication here is that Stephanie is applying a
backport that Bellsoft originally authored (with a couple of very small
modifications to make it work for jdk11u). They've written to Microsoft
saying it's fine to apply that patch (I can forward that email if required).
Should we get a sign-off / ECA on this derived work from the author?
We're not sure in Eclipse-land how making a contribution of third-party
works verbatim goes, because when I read the ECA it says both:
(ii)"Contribution" shall mean any original work of authorship, including
any modifications or additions to an existing work, that is submitted by
You to Eclipse for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the Eclipse
projects;
so a contribution is an original work (which is kind of what we would
expect), yet later in the COO section:
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my
knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I
have the right under that license to submit that work with
modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same
open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different
license), as indicated in the file;
There is this “based upon” provision for the contribution. Since
Stephanie’s work is derived from the original (but only a tiny amount)
how should we approach this?
Cheers,
Martijn
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