OSAF desires that contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to OSAF projects complete, sign, and submit (via snailmail or fax) an Individual Contributor License Agreement ("CLA") (html or pdf) . The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to OSAF and thereby allow us to defend the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual can submit more than de minimus patches (i.e. greater than 10 lines of code) to an OSAF project.
We have modeled our CLA on the Apache Software Foundation, Individual Contributor License Agreement V2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt), and thank them for their efforts in creating a legal document that meets the needs of an open source software project, and yet is relatively simple, short, and easy to understand by those of us who are not lawyers.
