Contributor Agreement: how to submit somebody else's patch

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Hi Luca,

You can obtain a written permission from the original author.
Alternatively, you can rewrite your own solution to the problem, hence
making it your original work.

Regards,
Ming

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
wrote:

> Dear PJSIP developers,
>
> I have a question concerning the Contributor Agreement
> (http://trac.pjsip.org/repos/wiki/ContributionAgreement).
>
> I have a build problem in PJSIP and found a patch to fix it on the
> repository of another open source project. The original author does not
> seem to be interested in mainlining their fix.
>
> I would like to send myself the patch but I'm not sure I'm allowed to do
> it because of the following sentence in the agreement:
>
> > With respect to your contribution, you represent that: [...]
> > it is an original work
>
> In this case I cannot state it is an original work. And if my
> understanding is correct it would be illegal to apply the fix under the
> agreement, unless the original author wants to submit it.
>
> Am I correct?
>
> How can I have the fix in upstream?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Luca
>
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