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| 24 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">Due diligence for submission of bug fixes and patches from
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| 25 | non-committers</h1>
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| 26 |
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <div class="body"><p class="shortdesc">Any organization or individual may submit bug fixes using
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| 30 | a github "pull request", generally tied to a specific report in the
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| 31 | project's issue tracker.</p>
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| 33 | <p class="p">Before committing code from a bug fix or patch provided by a third
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| 34 | party who has not signed a current contribution form for the project,
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| 35 | Committers should ask the following questions and follow up as appropriate
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| 36 | in order to ensure that the code can be contributed to the project: </p>
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| 39 | <li class="li">What is your name and who is your employer?</li>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <li class="li">Did you write the code that you wish to contribute to the DITA
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| 42 | Open Toolkit project? (If the contributor says no, the code
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| 43 | should not become a “Contribution” to the project. The contributor
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| 44 | may be asked to identify the complete details of the code’s source
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| 45 | and of any licenses or restrictions applicable to the code, but the
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| 46 | work should be conspicuously marked as “Submitted on behalf of a third-party:
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| 47 | [name of contributor]”.)</li>
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| 49 | <li class="li">Do you have the right to grant the copyright and patent licenses
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| 50 | for the contribution that are set forth in the CPL version 1.0 license
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| 51 | and Apache License version 2.0?</li>
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| 53 | <li class="li">Does your employer have any rights to code that you have written,
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| 54 | for example, through your contract for employment? If so, has your
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| 55 | employer given you permission to contribute the code on its behalf
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| 56 | or waived its rights in the code?</li>
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| 58 | <li class="li">Are you aware of any third-party licenses or other restrictions
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| 59 | (such as related patents or trademarks) that could apply to your contribution?
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| 60 | If so, what are they?</li>
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| 68 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../admin/HowToParticipate.html" title="Any individual or any organization can contribute to the project; contributions must adhere to the existing toolkit license(s) and should fit in with the general goals of the project. All major contributors will get appropriate recognition in release announcements and on the project home page.">How to participate in the DITA Open Toolkit</a></div>
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