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Contributor License Agreements may be submitted to Jasig in the following way:
- Snailmail Postal Mail
- Jasig Licensing
- P.O. Box 351989
- Westminster, CO 80035-1989
- USA
- Fax
- Attention: Jasig Licensing
- +1-303-495-3812
- Email
- Scanned signed copy in PDF form emailed to:
- licensing@jasig.org
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The Educational Community License v2 (ECL) is essentially identical to the Apache License v2. The only difference is , except for a minor change in section 3 that narrows the conditions of any implicit patent grant. This change was requested by some institutions participating in some key projects specific to higher education. To our knowledge, it is only in use by the Sakai project and the Kuali projects.
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The first reason for requiring CLAs is to provide proper legal protection to the contributors and the adopters of the projects. CLAs protect contributors by explicitly making it clear what the terms and conditions are for properly contributing to a project, thereby avoiding any confusion or misunderstandings between the contributor, the project, and the community. CLAs protect adopters of the project by ensuring that the contributions that make up the project are legitimately and appropriate licensed all the way from the contributor to the adopter. Furthermore, CLAs give Jasig better legal standing to defend against violations of the project license, providing protection for both contributors and adopters.
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- The Apache License is a comprehensive license that fully defines the nature of the agreement between the developers of the software and the users of the software and thereby provides clearer protection to all the parties involved, including developers.
- The Contributor License Agreements make it clear that everyone asserts they are legally entitled to make the developer contributions they are making, and the terms and conditions under which they are being made available to Jasig. This clarity provides better protection to the developers and their contributions.
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- The Apache License is a comprehensive license that fully defines the nature of the agreement between the developers of the software and the users of the software and thereby provides clearer protection to all the parties involved, including users.
- The Contributor License Agreements make it clear that everyone asserts they are legally entitled to make the developer contributions they are making, and the terms and conditions under which they are being made available to Jasig. This clarity provides better protection to the users because there is an explicit licensing chain fully connecting the copyright holders and the end users.
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