Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring
The Spring team will be rolling out a simplified contribution process that replaces the requirement to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) with a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). The process will start this week with Spring Framework, Spring Security, & Spring Boot and then roll out to the entire Spring portfolio.
History
Spring has long used a permissive Contributor License Agreement (CLA) in order to provide legal protections to the Spring project, users, and the Spring team. Long time contributors may remember that signing the CLA originally involved emailing a signed PDF of…