The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) defines the legal status of the contributed code in two different types of Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), individual contributors and corporations.
Kubernetes can only accept original source code from CLA signatories.
This policy does not apply to third_party and vendor.
It is important to read and understand this legal agreement.
If your work is done as an employee of your company, contact your company's legal department and ask to be put on the list of approved contributors for the CNCF CLA. Below, we have included steps for "Corporation signup" in case your company does not have a company agreement and would like to have one.
Click one of:
- Individual signup to sign up as an individual or as an employee of a signed organization.
- Corporation signup to sign as a corporation representative and manage signups from your organization.
Once you get to the sign in form, click "Log in with GitHub":
Ensure that the e-mail address you use when completing this form matches the one you will use for your commits.
If you are signing up as an employee, you must use your official person@organization.domain email address in the CNCF account registration page.
After creating your account, follow the instructions to complete the signing process through HelloSign.
If you did not receive an email from HelloSign, then request it here.
Your GitHub email address must match the same address you use when signing the CLA. GitHub has documentation on setting email addresses.
You must also set your git e-mail to match this e-mail address as well.
If you already submitted a PR you can correct your user.name and user.email
and then use git commit --amend --reset-author and then git push --force to
correct the PR.
The Linux Foundation
Hello,
You have signed CNCF Individual Contributor License Agreement. You can see your document anytime by clicking View on HelloSign.
Once you have this, the CLA authorizer bot will authorize your PRs.
If you've changed employers and still contribute to Kubernetes, your affiliation needs to be updated. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation uses gitdm to track who is contributing and from where. Create a pull request on the gitdm repository with a change to the corresponding developer affiliation text file. Your entry should look similar to this:
Jorge O. Castro*: jorge!heptio.com, jorge!ubuntu.com, jorge.castro!gmail.com
Heptio
Canonical until 2017-03-31
If you encounter any problems signing the CLA, log a ticket with the Linux Foundation ID group through the Linux Foundation Support Site.
Should you have any issues using the LF Support Site, send a message to the backup e-mail support address login-issues@jira.linuxfoundation.org
Someone from the CNCF will respond to your ticket to help.
If you are a Kubernetes GitHub organization or repo owner and would like to setup the Linux Foundation CNCF CLA check for your repositories, read the docs on setting up the CNCF CLA check