Dear Jeff, On 09/04/2016 00:37, Jeff Brower wrote: > Luca- > > Did you get a reply on this ? I have not seen a reply, maybe I missed something. I got a reply from Ming [0]. I asked for further clarification [1] and got no reply to that. My best understanding is that without a publicly-visible authorization from the original patch author I cannot submit it. And the original patch is so simple and straightforward that I cannot think of any way to rewrite it without making it worse. [0] http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/2016-March/019039.html [1] http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/2016-March/019063.html > > -Jeff > > > --------------- Original Message --------------- > Subject: Contributor Agreement: how to submit somebody else's patch > From: "Luca Ceresoli" <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, March 14, 2016 2:39 pm > To: pjsip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ------------------------------------------------ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Visit our blog: http://blog.pjsip.org pjsip mailing list pjsip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.pjsip.org/mailman/listinfo/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org
