Consider adding CLA for contributions

[aegershman]

In order to prevent potential legal turmoil, you might consider adding a CLA similar to how other projects like spring do for developer contributions

Pivotal requires contributors to sign a CLA for certain legal reasons that I'm too dumb to understand, but it might be valuable to investigate why they do it / whether it's appropriate for YB.

Thanks /cc @ajcaldera1 @xyloman @dashaun

[kmuthukk]

hi @aegershman - yes, we have a CLA that we request folks to sign before accepting their contributions. I believe currently it is a google form. Will have someone update/provide that information.

But, we need to make it available in the github README.md for the various projects (yugabyte-db, drivers, etc.).

[mbautin]

We currently have this form for signing the CLA: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11hn-vBGhOZRunclC3NKmSX1cvQVrU--r0ldDLqasRIo/edit

[aegershman]

Cool beans, all good, just thought of it & figured I'd throw this out there 👍 thanks

[GWhiskas]

Do I need to sign this form?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11hn-vBGhOZRunclC3NKmSX1cvQVrU--r0ldDLqasRIo/edit

Corrections in this PR correctly?
spring-projects/spring-framework#22372
Will it be merged?

[kmuthukk]

hi @GWhiskas - the CLA form that @mbautin shared is for contributions to the YugaByte repo. The link you point to seems to be a contribution to the spring-projects. I believe that's a different CLA form. Maybe it is the one posted in this comment: spring-projects/spring-framework#22372 (comment)?