Thanks for your email question. There is no need to have contributors sign the OWFa - they have already agreed to the OWFa when they signed the ToIP Membership Agreement and joined the ToIP Technical Stack Working Group – 2:
1. Open Web Foundation Final Specification Agreement 1.0 (“OWFa 1.0”). Upon the Working Group Participant’s execution of the
Working Group Charter, that Working Group Participant will be subject to the obligations set forth in the Open Web Foundation
Final Specification Agreement 1.0 (available at http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owfa-1-0,
“OWFa 1.0”) with respect to the current and one immediately prior version of all Approved Deliverables from that Working
Group.
2. Open Web Foundation CLA 1.0 (“OWF CLA 1.0”). Each Working Group Participant will be deemed to have executed the OWF
CLA 1.0 for its Contributions (as defined in the OWF CLA 1.0) to the Working Group (available at
http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owf-contributor-license-agreement-1-0---copyright-andpatent).
3. For Exclusion. Prior to the adoption of a Draft Deliverable as an Approved Deliverable, a Working Group Participant may exclude
Granted Claims from its licensing commitments under the OWFa 1.0 by providing written notice of that intent to the Working Group
chair (“Exclusion Notice”).
The Exclusion Notice for issued patents and published applications must include the patent number(s) or
title and application number(s), as the case may be, for each of the issued patent(s) or pending patent application(s) that the
Working Group Participant wishes to exclude from the licensing commitment set forth in Section 4 of this patent policy. If an issued
patent or pending patent application that may contain Granted Claims is not set forth in the Exclusion Notice, those Granted Claims
will continue to be subject to the licensing commitments under the Agreement. The Exclusion Notice for unpublished patent
applications must provide either: (i) the text of the filed application; or (ii) identification of the specific part(s) of the Draft
Deliverable whose implementation makes the excluded claim an Essential Claim. If (ii) is chosen, the effect of the exclusion will be
limited to the identified part(s) of the Draft Deliverable. The Project Chair will publish Exclusion Notices.
4. Approved Deliverables. Upon a Draft Deliverable being declared an Approved Deliverable by the Steering Committee, Working
Group Participants will, without further action, be subject to the obligations set forth in the Open Web Foundation Final
Specification Agreement (OWFa 1.0) with respect to that Approved Deliverable, except for any Granted Claims set forth in an
Exclusion Notice. The OWFa 1.0 is available at http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owfa-1-0.
This applies to the contributions made to the work after it was moved to TSWG-2 (as earlier contributions were made in TSWG-1 the W3C policy). You will want to ensure that all Working Group participants have been properly notified that you are coming up to the point of declaring the work an Approved Deliverable.
- https://cdn.platform.linuxfoundation.org/agreements/ToIP.pdf