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A Corporate CLA needs to be in place if you are contributing code on behalf of your employer. A Corporate CLA should be signed by an individual who is authorized to enter into it on behalf of the company. After the Corporate CLA is signed, your email address needs to be included in a whitelist Approved List that is associated with your employer for this project. A CLA manager for your company is responsible for managing the whitelistsApproved Lists.
An Individual CLA is signed by an individual for contributions that they contribute on their own behalf, as opposed to contributions on behalf of their employer or another entity.
Which Corporate CLA whitelist Approved List option has the lowest maintenance overhead?
The Domain Whitelist Approved List option requires less overhead for signatories and CLA managers because it allows entities to contribute under any email address under that domain name. When signatories and CLA managers use the Email Whitelist Approved List instead of the Domain WhitelistApproved List, they must use the tool to add an email address every time a new company contributor joins the project. Therefore, using the Domain Whitelist Approved List requires less overhead because signatories and CLA managers do not need to add and manage numerous employee email addresses.
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